Category Archives: Hedge Fund Technology
Twenty-Six Firms to Pay $390 Million Combined to Settle Charges for Recordkeeping Failures
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually-registered broker-dealers and investment advisers for widespread and longstanding failures by the firms and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications. The firms admitted […]
SEC Charges Moody’s With Internal Controls Failures and Ratings Symbols Deficiencies
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Moody’s Investors Service Inc., one of the nation’s largest credit ratings agencies, has agreed to pay a total of $16.25 million in penalties to settle charges involving internal control failures and […]
SEC Charges “Frack Master” With Running an $80 Million Oil and Gas Fraud
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four companies and eight individuals in an $80 million oil and gas fraud orchestrated by a Dallas man who calls himself the “Frack Master” for his purported expertise in hydraulic fracturing. The […]
Fund Manager Profile and Insights: Charlie Frumberg, Emancipation Management
New York (HedgeCo.Net) Emancipation Management, LLC is an SEC registered New York based investment manager, formed in June 2003. The company has a 10 year track record of identifying public companies within the technology sector that possess valuable franchises which […]
Pension Funds Behaving Like Individual Investors
New York (HedgeCo.Net) Over the last five years, corporate pension funds have quadrupled their allocations to hedge funds, but some of those funds may be having regrets as the hedge fund industry has lagged the overall market during this bullish […]
Large Speculators Becoming More Bullish On Metals
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) The latest Commitment of Traders reports from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) show that large speculators (mostly hedge funds and CTAs) became more bullish toward metals in the past week’s reporting period. Looking at the reports […]
A Number Of Streaks In Oil Trading And Production
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The oil market has been on a wild ride over the past year. After prices for West Texas Intermediate Crude peaked at $107.68 last June, the price per barrel fell to as low as $42.41 in […]
29 Hedge Funds opened in Florida in 2015
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Miami and South Florida is back in the news as the area continues to attract hedge funds and financial companies. In a column named “Hedge funds eye Florida’s ‘New Manhattan’“, CNBC’s hedge and private equity funds […]
Two Different Hedge Funds Announce Stakes in YUM Brands
New York (HedgeCo.Net) Over the course of the last week, two different hedge fund/activist investors announced stakes in fast-food giant YUM Brands (NYSE: YUM). On Friday, it was announced that Third Point has bought in to YUM during the first […]
HedgeCoVest Models Continue To Outperform the Overall Market
New York (HedgeCo.net) – At this point in time, HedgeCoVest has 26 different models for investors to choose from on the platform. There are 12 single strategy models which are replicating a single hedge fund manager and there are 14 […]
