(FINalternatives) Hedge funds notched their fifth consecutive month of positive returns in October and their tenth of the year to date, according to SS&C GlobeOp, while net asset flows advanced. To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) As popular as the alternative investments industry remains, attracting and retaining investors at a time when asset classes are converging means that managers need to constantly think about how best to differentiate themselves. In short, how should GPs best […]

(Bloomberg) In one telling, the selloff in Japanese equities is a natural reaction to shares rising too far, too fast. But another theory is emerging, one that involves hedge funds. For Noriyuki Sato of Asset Management One SP Pte, one […]

(Agrimoney) Hedge funds curtailed their negative position on agricultural commodity prices, as bets on rising livestock values more than outweighed selling in grains – and coffee, now deemed “significantly vulnerable to short covering” Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced […]

(Reuters) Noted short-seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates continued to add to his short position in electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) throughout the year even as the company’s shares rallied, he said at the Reuters Global Investment 2018 Outlook […]

(CNBC) Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management hedge fund is buying all the “FANG” stocks, except Google. In the third quarter, Tiger dissolved its $66 million stake in Google parent Alphabet, a required quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]

(The Business Insider) Goldman Sachs’ Marcus business just hit a $2 billion milestone. The US bank launched online lending business Marcus last October, and passed the $1 billion mark this summer. In a September presentation, the bank said it expected […]

(CNBC )Though investors think that stocks are too expensive, they are still pushing money into those equities…Appetite for risk has increased among money managers to a new high, according to the latest fund manager survey by Bank of America Merrill […]

(Yahoo) Hedge funds of a certain minimum size are required to disclose their long stock holdings in filings to the SEC known as 13-Fs. Of course, the filings only provide a partial picture since they do not show short positions […]

(CNBC) Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought more Apple shares before their latest jump to all-time highs. Berkshire also cut its stake in IBM by 32 percent, or 17.06 million shares, in the third quarter. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Hedge funds gained 1.32%1 during month of October. Meanwhile underlying markets, as represented by the MSCI AC Word Index (Local), gained 2.56% over the same period. Roughly 77% of the underlying constituent hedge funds for the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund […]

(Opalesque) Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with over $30 billion of assets under management, announced today that James Walker is joining the firm as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Walker will report to Jeff […]