Category Archives: hedge-fund-research
Hedge Funds Held Up Better than Most Asset Classes Last Week
New York (HedgeC0.net) – The selling that hit almost all asset classes last seek took a toll on investors, but hedge funds held up better than most other investment vehicles. According to the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index, the hedge fund […]
Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Up in November
New York (HedgeCo.net) – November was choppy for stocks as the S&P 500 gained in the first few days of the month, fell sharply from the third through the thirteenth, rallied back to move back in to positive territory and […]
Long/Short and Computer-Based Trading Funds Attract Most Assets in 2015
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With the world’s equity markets seeing an increase in volatility in the second half of the year and with the S&P going through a choppy period in the first half of the year, the two hedge […]
Oil Prices Keep Falling and Hedge Funds Keep Adding to Short Positions
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The price of crude oil closed last week at $35.36 per barrel and that is the lowest weekly closing price since February 2004. The selling deepened after OPEC failed to reach any sort of consensus on […]
Hedge Funds Continue to Attract Assets
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The mainstream media has been more than willing to report the woes of hedge funds this year, but despite all of their reports about poor performance, high fees and closures, the industry continues to attract new […]
Hedge Funds Not The Only Funds That Can Face Redemption Issues
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Most mutual fund investors assume that they can get their money back at any time upon request, but investors in one high-yield mutual fund are finding out otherwise. According to an article in the Wall Street […]
More Evidence that Investors are Looking for Alternatives
New York (HedgeCo.net) – We have featured a number of stories about how investors are looking at alternative investment strategies more and more these days. The alternative investment industry has seen tremendous growth and that growth increased in the third […]
Short Bets on Anglo American Pay Off for Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Metals and mining stocks have been under pressure for some time now, in fact you the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (NYSE: XME) peaked in June 2008 and has fallen over 80% since then. The […]
Things May Have Just Gotten Worse for Einhorn, Greenlight
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Last week we reported that David Einhorn and his hedge fund Greenlight Capital were headed for their second losing year in 19 years since inception and that 2015 could end up being the worst year yet […]
Tiger Veda Closing Fund: Is the Reason a Bad Sign
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Having a hedge fund announce that it was closing its doors and returning investor money has been a theme this year. A number of funds have announced such plans and many of the funds that are […]
ECB Action Adds to Macro Funds Woes
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Last Thursday when the European Central Bank announced a cut in rates to -0.3% and an extension of the bond-buying program, they may have inadvertently added the misery that macro-oriented hedge funds have experienced in 2015. […]
Alcoa Being Added by Two Well-Known Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Aluminum giant Alcoa has struggled for most of 2015 as the stock price fell from $15.63 to start the year to a closing low of $7.82 on November 12. That put the stock at a 50% […]
