(Bloomberg) Dan Loeb wants Honeywell International Inc. to spin off its aerospace business. Nelson Peltz, another activist investor, wants General Electric Co. to cut costs. Meanwhile over at rival United Technologies Corp., Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes is taking another […]

(Harvest) When you think of commodity market performance, what’s one of the first things you think of? Positive or negative performance? For anyone who has invested over the past 10 years, the answer has been mostly negative… and even when […]

(Harvest) Investing in the midstream energy sector via MLP & midstream equities is well known as illustrated by the considerable growth over the last decade in the number of public MLPs/midstream companies and related equity oriented investment products. Over 120 […]

(Harvest) The landscape for emerging market (EM) local debt is expanding fast – and looks set to continue. Earlier this year, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Uruguay joined the bellwether benchmark for the asset class, the JPMorgan Government Bond Index-Emerging […]

(FINalternatives) Hedge funds lost some ground last week as returns from Global Macro strategies and CTAs moved visibly in opposite directions, according to recent data from Lyxor Asset Management. To read this article:

(Reuters) A trustee for Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC has sued executives and subsidiaries of reinsurer Beechwood with allegations they helped orchestrate fraud with hedge fund manager Platinum Partners. Platinum’s top executives, including founder Mark Nordlicht and co-chief investment […]

Hedge Fund Optimas Looks Around the World to Trade China Themes Bloomberg posted on Mon 7 Aug 2017 Permalink Print To trade China themes, look around the world. So says Optimas Capital, which raised $300 million last year to rank […]

(FINalternatives) Several hedge fund strategies at Ken Griffin’s $27 billion alternative asset manager Citadel, including its flagship Kensington and Wellington funds, have reportedly booked banner months in July and are outperforming broad industry benchmarks for the year to date. To […]

(FINalternatives) Quantitative investment manager dormouse reversed several months of negative returns in July, as trend following CTAs were broadly able to get on the right side of movements in currency and commodity markets. To read this article:

(Reuters) U.S. hedge fund King Street Capital Management owned a stake of 5.81 percent in Toshiba Corp as of July 31, according to a Japanese securities filing by the fund. King Street Capital bought the stake for investment purposes, the […]

(Bloomberg) The two main funds at Ken Griffin’s $27 billion Citadel have gained almost 7 percent this year, helped by its equity bets. The Kensington and Wellington funds, which trade across asset classes, each rose 6.8 percent in the first […]

(Bloomberg) Shares of India’s banks may be set for a pullback, according to Vikas Gattani, chief investment officer at Singapore-based fund manager Progress Asia Capital and Advisors Pte. “In the absence of any sharp uptick in banking credit and a […]