(Bloomberg) The CC+ cocoa hedge fund, run by Armajaro Asset Management LLP’s famed trader Anthony Ward, lost money in 2016 for the first time since its inception a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The loss shows […]

(Bloomberg) Summer may be a few months away but oil investors are already getting their hopes up that American drivers will do their part to rebalance the market. Hedge funds increased bets on higher West Texas Intermediate crude prices for […]

(Reuters) Cost-cutting proposals from activist investor Rudolf Bohli could endanger Swiss asset manager GAM Holding’s future, Chief Executive Alexander Friedman said in an interview published on Saturday. Bohli is not interested in a sustainable turnaround of the business, Friedman told […]

(Bloomberg) It’s a buyer’s market in hedge funds and wealthy families are beginning to feel the love. Turmoil in the fund industry is giving family offices a resurgence in power. As traditional institutional backers reconsider their hedge fund investments amid […]

(FINalternatives) Dr. Martin Coward’s quantitative investment manager dormouse slipped for the second month in a row in March, falling -2.24% as the systematic CTA space remained broadly under pressure, and closed the first quarter down -3.92%. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) As Americans prepare to fill their Easter baskets with sweet treats, hedge funds aren’t feeling the sugar rush. As expectations for a global supply surplus mount, money managers have reduced their bets on a sugar rally for six straight […]

(Business Insider) In an interview with Business Insider’s global editor in chief Henry Blodget on “The Bottom Line,” BI’s new weekly business show, Dalio laid out the fundamental investment philosophy that led to Bridgewater’s becoming the world’s largest hedge fund […]

(New York Times) Dawn Fitzpatrick began her career at O’Connor & Associates, the Chicago firm that was later acquired by UBS as the Swiss bank’s internal hedge fund. She rose to lead the firm and become one of Wall Street’s […]

(Harvest) The billion dollar question is whether the volatility gets evaporated so quickly die to all the players in this trade, or if there are so many players in this space because the volatility is getting evaporated so quickly. We […]

(Harvest) Another simple test to determine whether managed futures returns will do better than average is through looking at economic growth. Now, we know that bonds and other defensive assets like managed futures will do better in “bad times” such […]

(Hedgeweek) March produced mixed returns for CTA strategies, with the SG CTA Index finishing the month down 0.75 per cent, with positive contributions from five out of the 20 constituent CTAs. To read this article:

(FINalterntives) Lyxor Asset Management has joined forces with London-based hedge fund manager Harmonic Capital Partners to launch a new UCITS-compliant global macro fund. To read this article: