(HITC Business) “It’s a bit like saying that your salary for July will only be paid if you’re still working at the company four years later.” To read this article:

(CNBC) Bridgewater’s founder says our responsibility is to “keep dancing but closer to the exit.”The founder and chief investment officer of the world’s biggest hedge fund said Thursday in a commentary posted to LinkedIn that central bankers have “clearly and […]

(Harvest) We think there’s potential for major impacts on global capital markets. We expect to take aim at areas such as trade protection, immigration, higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners, and big wage increases. All these policies tend to […]

(FINalternatives) Hedge funds posted gains in June as global financial markets posted mixed performance, the U.S. Fed hiked interest rates and implied volatilities remained near historical lows, according to a flash update from Hedge Fund Research. The company’s HFRX Global […]

(Bloomberg) Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP’s main hedge fund suffered its fourth straight monthly loss in June, slumping 1.5 percent, according to an investor letter seen by Bloomberg News. The decline pushed the macro hedge fund down 5.2 percent this […]

(FINalternatives) Emerging hedge funds outperform their more established peers in their first three years, according to new research from Preqin, booking consistently higher returns than the industry at large. The new research examines the industry’s newest entrants in two ways; […]

(FINalternatives) Natixis Asset Management has reportedly become the first asset manager to utilize a blockchain-powered platform to distribute fund shares to investors that purchased them, a landmark accomplishment as distributed ledger technology works its way into the back office of […]

(Bloomberg) The former head of mining company Xstrata has backed a new industrial commodity-focused hedge fund. Mick Davis, who left Xstrata in 2013 after more than a decade at the firm, was one of the early investors in Commodity Asset […]

(Reuters) Dallas-based Highland Capital Management LP is set to buy and expand an Argentina-focused hedge fund previously managed by Argentine fund firm MBA Asset Management, according to a person familiar with the situation. The fund currently has assets under management […]

(CNBC) Typical safe-haven trends showed little sign of fear Wednesday after North Korea’s first intercontinental ballistic missile test. But some hedge funds bought protection against a South Korean default. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Since the 1990s, Norwegian metals refiner Elkem as routinely tapped the world’s oldest power exchange in search of the best deals on the electricity supplies it needed to run five plants that make materials for everything from iPhones to […]

(Harvest) The first investors to take advantage of computers to process data and make investments were ‘quant funds’ that continue today to be successful at scale. The tools at their disposal were statistics and linear models – limited by the […]