Monthly Archives: September 2016

(Fin Alternatives) UBS Global Asset Management executive Ian Barnes has been named chief executive officer at Veritas Asset Management. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Larger discretionary macro and event-driven hedge funds are most at risk of shutting down as low returns weigh on the industry, according to the chief executive officer of the world’s largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager. “When individual funds get […]

(Bloomberg) Nowadays, it’s a rare selloff that isn’t blamed on the growing heft of a strategy called risk parity. But to a 52-year-old quant who helped develop it, the problem isn’t that risk parity is too big, but too small. […]

(Bloomberg) David Siegel, a quantitative hedge fund pioneer, issued a warning to investors: Artificial intelligence lacks common sense. Siegel, who has used AI to build his Two Sigma Investments into a $37 billion hedge fund firm, said algorithms are limited […]

(Fin ALternatives) Former IMC Asset Management portfolio manager Simon Berring is launching a new structured credit hedge fund that will focus on securitized consumer and residential credit assets in esoteric, and under-invested segments of the structured credit market. To read […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds are facing the most challenging time Tiger Management’s Julian Robertson said he’s seen in an investing career spanning several decades, and the industry pioneer cautioned that their days of charging hefty fees may be over. “That type […]

(Bloomberg) Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. are headed toward their second-best quarter since the e-commerce giant’s record-setting initial public offering two years ago. And hedge funds are missing out. The Chinese company’s U.S.-traded stock jumped as much as 38 […]

(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds favoured hard wheat over soft, coffee over cocoa, and cattle over hogs as they raised their bullish bets on agricultural commodities for a second successive week – for the first time in three months. Managed money, a […]

(Reuters) Pipeline operator Williams Cos Inc said on Monday it added two new directors, prompting activist investor Corvex Management LP to withdraw plans to replace the company’s entire board.The company named Stephen Chazen, former chief executive of Occidental Petroleum Corp, […]

(Fin Alternatives) Global alternative asset manager Carlyle Group believes private equity firms will increasingly buy control of companies in Asia rather than take minority stakes, particularly in China where slowing economic growth is likely to convince more owners to sell. […]

(Reuters) John Thaler, the tech, media and telecom stock specialist who shut down his hedge fund firm JAT Capital Management LP in 2015, is considering a return to managing other people’s money, including launching a new hedge fund, two people […]