(Harvest) Markets spent last week watching the Republican Party eat its own and reject seven years of promises to repeal the broken Obamacare bill while the Democrat Party that destroyed the American healthcare system celebrated. For the moment, investors chalked […]

(Harvest) Over the three years of 2013-2015, the cumulative performance of the local currency index was negative 29.6%. Currencies in the index were down on a nominal basis, on average, 50%. Unlike other deeply negative environments for EM, there was […]

(NBC News) A former FedEx driver and the founder and chief investment officer of a local management firm was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing more than half a million dollars from local investors. Joshua Knaup, […]

(Bloomberg) If you’re investing in health care stocks, you’d better ask the experts.Thanks to the advice from a range of professors, Swedish hedge fund Rhenman Healthcare Equity L/S has delivered an average annual return of 21 percent since it started […]

(Reuters) Dubai-based investment bank Arqaam Capital is launching a globally focused hedge fund, it said on Monday, becoming one of only a handful of local firms to offer such a product. Although Dubai has been growing rapidly as a banking […]

(FINalternatives) The proxy fight between Mick McGuire’s activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management and popular restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings intensified on Monday as the company included CTI Foods executive Sam Rovit – already one of four candidates on Marcato’s […]

(Agrimoney) Hedge funds cut their bullish betting on ags to the lowest in nearly a year, regulators revealed, amid growing doubts over the “Trumpflation” trade – but potentially setting up grain markets for hefty volatility later this week. Managed money, […]

(New York Post) Tweets by President Trump pal Carl Icahn could get dragged into the insider-trader trial of golf-course owner Billy Walters, court papers show. Manhattan federal prosecutors want to show the jury overseeing Walters’ insider-trading case that Icahn, who […]

(FINalternatives) Alternative asset manager FS Investments has debuted its first closed-end interval fund in partnership with Chicago-based Magnetar Capital that will invest in the equity and debt securities of both public and private energy and energy infrastructure companies. To read […]

(New York Times) A bitter legal war between the bond investor William H. Gross and Pimco, the company he built into one of the biggest asset managers in the world, is over.A lawyer representing Mr. Gross filed a request in […]

(Harvest) Passive global bond investors may be getting more than they bargained for—in terms of risk, that is. That’s because lower-yielding debt is over-represented in the benchmark, providing less buffer—and other types of risks may be locked in. Japan, for […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds have been trying to teach computers to think like traders for years. Now, after many false dawns, an artificial intelligence technology called deep learning that loosely mimics the neurons in our brains is holding out promise for […]