Category Archives: Syndicated
Global Investors Appeared to Be ‘On Hold’ in August
(Opalesque) The Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 106.8, down 2.1 points from July’s revised reading of 108.9. The decline in sentiment was driven by a 4.9 point drop in the European ICI to 89.3 along with the 0.3 point […]
Opalesque Roundup: Dozens of new cryptocurrency hedge funds push onto the market:
(Opalesque) In the week ending 01 September, 2017, In FinTech, Autonomous NEXT has released a list of 55 cryptocurrency hedge funds, illustrating the mounting interest in the space at a time when even middle-class Americans are said to be growing […]
SYZ Asset Management Opens Office in Madrid in Targeted European Expansion
(Opalesque) SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management arm of the SYZ Group, announces the opening of an office in Madrid as of 1 September 2017. This milestone follows the Munich and Milan branch openings in 2016, and a series […]
Here’s How North Korea’s Nuclear Test Has Affected Markets
(Bloomberg) Here we go again. Financial markets are registering some modest flight-from-risk in the aftermath of North Korea’s most powerful nuclear test yet. The Sunday detonation forced investors to again question the wisdom of holding on to equities near their […]
Investor With 30% in Cash Says North Korea Selloff Will Come
(Bloomberg) Stock markets are headed for a big selloff, maybe not today, but soon. That’s the view of Nader Naeimi, who heads a dynamic investment fund at AMP Capital and helps manage about $110 billion. The Sydney-based investor has about […]
Top Hedge-Fund Client in Nordics Says Next Selloff Will Be Short
(Bloomberg) Like many other big investors, the largest private-sector pension fund in Finland has more cash than it knows what to do with. That’s why its management is confident that asset prices, high though they are, will be forced even […]
MVIS: All Seven Investable Long/Short Equity Indexes Up In August
(FINalternatives) All seven investable long/short equity indices from Frankfurt-based liquid alternative index provider MV Index Solutions booked positive returns in August, the VanEck subsidiary has announced. To read this article:
Med School Grads Go to Work for Hedge Funds
(Bloomberg) Matthew Alkaitis, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School, is calm, friendly, and a good listener—the kind of qualities you’d want in a doctor. But though he spends 14 hours a day studying for his board exams, the 29-year-old […]
Velazquez Said to Prep New Millenium-Backed Long/Short Fund
(FINalternatives) Close on the heels of news that Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management will back a new fund formed by portfolio manager Sara Nainzadeh, the well-known alternative asset manager is also said to be supporting a new long/short equity strategy under […]
Hedge Funds Are Rushing Into Cryptocurrencies to Juice Their Weak Returns
(Quartz) Hedge funds have been trounced by the stock market in recent years. Now they are eyeing a new asset class that might provide the big returns their clients pay them to produce: bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has risen nine-fold […]
Copper Rock Capital Partners Appoints David Dineen as Portfolio Manager
(Opalesque) Copper Rock Capital Partners, a global equity investment manager, announced today the addition of David Dineen, CFA, to the investment team. Mr. Dineen will serve as a Portfolio Manager supporting each of the firm’s four investment strategies, and will […]
Emulating Endowments With ETFs
(Harvest) ETF.com posted an interview with Hossein Kazemi from Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association who did a study that concluded that small and medium sized endowments can effectively compete with the larger endowments by using ETFs to replicate the non-market […]