(Harvest) The Yen and the US dollar are weaker as the week begins and all attention is focused once again upon North Korea which has launched yet another test missile, which has reached into the upper atmosphere but has travelled […]

(FINalternatives) After coming back to life in the second half of last year, emerging markets continued to bolster the results at hedge funds exposed to them into April, according to new data from Hedge Fund Research. To read this article:

(CNBC) Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, is feeling OK about markets and the economy right now, but he is getting really worried about the future.”Big picture, the near term looks good and the longer term looks scary,” Dalio wrote […]

(CNBC) Help likely is on the way for banks looking to get out from under trading restrictions levied after the financial crisis. At a closed-door meeting earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin directed five regulatory agencies to review the […]

(Bloomberg) It’s the M&A banker’s holy grail: a deal invulnerable to an assault by greedy hedge funds. Two German telecommunications groups have had a go at just that — seemingly with some success. United Internet AG and Drillisch AG want […]

(The Business Insider) UK-based hedge fund firm Lansdowne Partners invested more than half a billion in Wells Fargo in the first quarter. The fund invested about $544 million in the bank during the first three months of this year, according […]

(CNBC) David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management sold its stake in JCPenney in the first quarter, according to an SEC filing Friday. The firm also took a very small stake in Snap and bought call options for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF….. […]

(Motley Fool) When one of the most profitable hedge fund managers of all time liquidates a large position in any company, smart investors take notice. Late last year, that’s precisely what happened with shares of Amazon.com. At some point in […]

(Reuters) Goldman Sachs Group will launch a new private stock-trading venue, known as a “dark pool,”… that is run by exchange operator Nasdaq Inc, according to a note to clients…. To read this article:

(Pension & Investments) It’s not unreasonable to think hedge fund managers are legion, given all the attention paid to them in gossip columns, popular television series like Showtime’s “Billions” or the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book, “The Big Short.” […]

(Harvest) Choices, choices, choices. There are just so many managers to choose for a portfolio. Look at the major database, and you will find hundreds of managers of all sizes, styles and skill. Using some simple criteria, the list can […]

(Harvest) The world was shocked, shocked, I write, that according to Bloomberg, hedge fund investors are abandoning fund managers because of “high fees” and “poor returns.” My question is simple: Isn’t it an investor’s job to get out of poorly […]