Category Archives: Syndicated
Second Quarter Hedge-Fund Strategy Outlook
(Harvest) K2 Advisors seeks to add value through active portfolio management, tactical allocation and diversification across four main hedge strategies: long-short equity, relative value, global macro and event driven. In their second-quarter (Q2) 2017 outlook, K2 Advisors’ Research and Portfolio […]
Chris Rokos’s Macro Fund Said to Decline 4.7% in First Quarter
(Bloomberg) Rokos Capital Management, one of last year’s best-performing macro hedge funds, lost 4.7 percent in the first quarter as macro funds struggled. The London-based fund run by billionaire Chris Rokos fell 2.4 percent in March, said a person with […]
Why You Shouldn’t Judge a Hedge Fund by Its Name
(Bloomberg) What’s in a name? For hedge fund investors, sometimes a warning sign.Hedge funds often choose names with words that reflect authority, stability and power — i.e. words with gravitas. Now a report from researchers at the University at Buffalo […]
The Lost Decade For Long/Short Hedge Funds
(Opalesque) For years, investors have suspected they aren’t getting the alpha they are paying for from long/short hedge funds. The underperformance might be even worse than they feared. Not only are they not capturing alpha, but investors aren’t even getting […]
Morgan Stanley Compliance Chief Fenrich Leaving for Hedge Fund
(Reuters) Morgan Stanley’s chief compliance officer Billy Fenrich is leaving the firm just over a year after being named to the position. Fenrich will be replaced by Raul Yanes, according to an internal Morgan Stanley memo reviewed by Reuters, which […]
Ukraine to Launch Big Blockhain Deal With Tech Firm Bitfury
(Reuters) Ukraine has partnered with global technology company the Bitfury Group to put a sweeping range of government data on a blockchain platform, the firm’s chief executive officer told Reuters, in a project he described as probably the largest of […]
Commodity Investing – Not for The Buy and Hold Crowd
(Harvest) An article in the Wall Street Journal , “Why Commodity-Index Investing May be Futile” has gotten a lot of interest by investors although there was not any new information in the story. The reasons for avoiding commodity indices should […]
Hedge Fund Branding Drives Asset Flows
(Harvest) Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small minority of hedge funds with the strongest brands. A recent report from Hedge Fund Research shows that approximately 69% […]
Hedge Fund Manager Admits to Bilking Investors Out of Millions
(Nj.com) A manager of a hedge fund that billed itself as a fund for the “little guys” admitted Tuesday in federal court in Camden that he bilked 76 victims of more than $4 million and avoided paying more than $273,000 […]
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index Gains +0.06% in March
(FINalternatives) Liquid alternatives rose in March along with their traditional hedge fund brethren, according to new research from Wilshire Associates, as the company’s Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index slightly outperformed its comparable hedge fund industry benchmark during the period. To read […]
Chris Rokos’s Macro Fund Said to Decline 4.7% in First Quarter
(Bloomberg) Rokos Capital Management, one of last year’s best-performing macro hedge funds, lost 4.7 percent in the first quarter as macro funds struggled. The London-based fund run by billionaire Chris Rokos fell 2.4 percent in March, said a person with […]
Pierre Andurand’s Commodities Fund Lost 11.6 Pct in Q1
(Reuters) The Andurand Commodities Fund, run by asset manager Pierre Andurand, lost 11.6 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to a document prepared by a bank seen by Reuters.The $1.53 billion hedge fund continued its descent after […]