Monthly Archives: September 2017

(Barron’s) If you’re investing your clients’ money in hedge funds that focus on China, India and other emerging markets, you’re in good company. Asian hedge fund managers have added $13.6 billion of AUM this year through the end of August, […]

(Harvest) Since the great recession officially ended in June 2009, risk has been rewarded and many risk assets have become very expensive in the process. The US central bank’s vast financial engineering effort has created excessive liquidity in the banking […]

(Harvest) Trying to time currency swings is difficult, to say the least. The drivers that matter most for a given currency—from interest rate differentials and monetary policy to investment flows and investor sentiment—can change quickly. And currencies themselves can affect […]

(Bloomberg) For the better part of a decade, global macro hedge funds have struggled to make money, complaining that central-bank policies have crimped volatility. That makes AE Capital’s success even more impressive. The firm, which manages about $300 million in […]

(FINalternatives) Global financial services giant State Street is launching a new service that will combine the advantages of machine learning technology with the knowledge and experience of human experts. To read this article:

(CNBC) Though hedge funds often signal a freewheeling, shoot-from-the-hip investment style, for the most part these investment vehicles aim to dampen volatility. They do it by using various strategies that are supposed to provide protection from market volatility and sometimes […]

(FINalternatives) Global financial services giant State Street is launching a new service that will combine the advantages of machine learning technology with the knowledge and experience of human experts. The new service, named the Quantextual Idea Lab, is aimed squarely […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds have trimmed bets on a fall in shares of Clariant (CLN.S), just as activist investor Corvex increases pressure on the Swiss chemicals company to ditch a $20 billion M&A deal with rival Huntsman (HUN.N). The hedge funds’ […]

(Bloomberg) Ever since Barclays Plc ousted Antony Jenkins as chief executive officer in 2015, he has been warning the banking industry to embrace new technology or face a “Kodak moment” of obsolescence. Now Jenkins has the opportunity to practice what […]

(Reuters) Trading volume for emerging market debt fell in the second quarter of 2017 to $1.132 trillion, a survey released on Tuesday showed, a 14 percent decrease from the first quarter and 17 percent lower than in the April-June period […]

(Bloomberg) In our last episode of “Mick McGuire: Activist Investor,” our hero was flying high. It was early June, and the young hedge-fund manager, who earlier in his career had played Robin to Bill Ackman’s Batman, 1 had made a […]