Monthly Archives: September 2015
Women Led Investment Funds Continue to Outperform the Industry, But Struggle to Raise Capital: KPMG Report
(Yahoo Finance) — KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, today issued the 2015 Women in Alternative Investments Report: Breaking Away, The Path Forward for Women in Alternatives, which found that women-owned or managed funds are making little […]
Not All Alternatives ETFs Are Actually Alternatives
New York (HedgeCo.net) – There have been a number of articles written in the last few weeks about liquid alts and how they performed during the month of August. While the funds experienced mixed results, as was the case with […]
Dalio Defends Risk-Parity Strategy
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As if taking his worst monthly loss in two years wasn’t bad enough, now Ray Dalio is having to defend his risk-parity strategy from other hedge fund managers. Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates and their All Weather Fund […]
Doubleline Capital to Offer Global Bond Fund
(Reuters) DoubleLine Capital, the investment firm overseen by Jeffrey Gundlach, on Wednesday filed a prospectus with U.S. securities regulators to offer a mutual fund that invests in bonds around the world.The DoubleLine Global Bond Fund, which Gundlach will manage, will […]
These Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Are Betting Big Time That Apple Is Cheap
(Forbes) It’s not often that you get an opportunity to buy Apple stock, the world’s most widely held stock, at a discount. But given the broad market declines of the past month, Apple has given the world a nice dip […]
Hedge Fund Returning 107% Sees More China, Emerging-Market Pain
(Bloomberg) As hedge fund managers take a beating from the slowdown in China, Ray Bakhramov is flying high. Bakhramov, the chief investment officer of the $100 million Forum Asset Management, said he’s been betting on an emerging-market slump since 2012. […]
Aberdeen Asset Management to acquire investment manager Advance Emerging Capital
(Banking Business Review) Aberdeen Asset Management has reached an agreement to acquire 100% stake in British specialist investment manager Advance Emerging Capital (AEC) for an undisclosed amount.The acquisition is in line with Aberdeen’s strategy to bolster its alternatives capabilities to […]
Inside These Hedge Funds, Special Money Managers for the Boss
(Bloomberg) Step inside Table Management, an obscure investment firm in New York, and something strange happens: you’re transported to the rarefied realm of Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager.Table, it turns out, is sort of a secret wrapped in […]
Picky banks play hardball with hedge fund clients
(Reuters) For Jonathan Kinlay, no novice at setting up a hedge fund, this time around was much harder.In the traditional Grand Tour of investment banks looking for help to finance his trading, he was politely turned down by no less […]
Hayman’s Bass says Asian banks face increased loan losses – CNBC
(Reuters)- Kyle Bass, founder of hedge fund Hayman Capital Management, told CNBC on Tuesday that Asian banks face a sustained period of increased loan losses and that global gross domestic product growth would slow more than expected as a result. […]
Bluecrest’s Macro Hedge Fund Gains During Volatile August
(Bloomberg) BlueCrest Capital Management’s global macro hedge fund rose 0.6 percent in August, according to a person familiar with the situation, as concerns of a slowdown in China roiled global stock markets. Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital International beat other hedge […]
Credit Suisse Index Falls In August
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, the last of the main hedge fund indices, released August results yesterday and it showed the broad index lost 1.99% during the month. The monthly result erased the gains from […]