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What A Hedge Fund Failure Looks Like
Seeking Alpha – The Twittersphere couldn’t get enough of the news today/yesterday that hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones was shutting down one of his eponymous funds, the Tudor Tensor Fund (try saying Tudor Tensor ten times fast). And critics […]
Why I Don’t Like Hedge Funds (But Made One Exception)
Forbes – Many super-star traders run hedge funds. George Soros, Julian Robertson, Ray Dalio, and John Paulson have all produced double digit annual returns as hedge fund managers. Hedge funds typically attract hot talent, as hedge funds can often pay top traders and investment […]
World’s Biggest Hedge Funds Reach Record Highs
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Absolute Return just went live with its latest Billion Dollar Club rankings and US hedge funds are now managing their all-time peak assets, with growth at levels not seen since before the financial crisis. Assets grew […]
U.S. high-frequency trading ban unlikely: Nasdaq
Reuters – U.S. regulators are unlikely to put rules in place that would harm high-frequency trading (HFT) as doing so would make trading more difficult and expensive for all investors, Robert Greifeld, chief executive officer of Nasdaq OMX Group said […]
Coffee in vogue as hedge funds up bullish ag bets
AgriMoney – Hedge funds extended their bets on rising commodity prices for an eighth successive week, led by grains and by arabica coffee, in which they were at their most bullish in six years. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, […]
Trader Who Left Citi Amid Rate-Rigging Case Joins Hedge Fund
WSJ – Chris Cecere, criticized by Japanese authorities in 2011 for his alleged efforts to rig benchmark interest rates, has begun a new job at hedge fund Element Capital Management LLC in New York, according to people familiar with the […]
Hedge fund managers shy away from mutual funds
P&I – Huge growth in alternative investment mutual funds is fueling a big market for subadvisory hires for hedge fund managers. What’s catching the attention of many smaller hedge fund managers, and to a lesser extent big fund complexes, is […]
The Hedge Fund Activists Are Not the Flavor of the Month for the Chief Justice of the Delaware Court
Forbes – Some very high powered judicial figures and institutional investor giants are coming down hard on insatiable promotional shareholder hedge fund activists like Bill Ackman, Daniel Loeb or Carl Icahn for self-interested activities that are distracting boards of directors […]
Bizzby Raises $10M From Hedge Fund To Take On TaskRabbit In UK
Tech Crunch – On-demand services marketplace Bizzby has raised $10 million, and claims to have reached 40,000 users its first three months of operation this year with a smartphone app resembling TaskRabbit-style services. The investors was undisclosed but sources say the investor […]
Brokerage Firm Scores Knockout With Boxing Charity Event
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Brokerage firm partners at Hennion & Walsh, held a successful Silk City Charity Boxing Event this month in New Jersey. “Giving back to the surrounding communities is a cornerstone of our corporate culture,” said Rich Hennion . “Organizing this […]
JPM, AQR win as hedge funds suck in assets
CNBC – The fat funds are getting fatter—the largest hedge funds now control more cash than ever before. Americas-based firms that each invest at least $1 billion managed a record high of $1.71 trillion as of Jan. 1, according to […]
Apparently There’s A ‘Goldilocks’ Hedge Fund Size
Business Insider – Apparently hedge funds of a certain size are best at getting the market ‘juuuuust right.’ Hedge funds with assets under management of $100-499 million and $500-999 million beat their bigger brethren in terms of 12-month average returns […]