(Bloomberg) If you want to protect your portfolio, you better go liquid. The current market is “priced for perfection,” said Sean George, a partner and head of fixed income at Swedish fund manager Granit Fonder AB. “It’s time to step […]

(Harvest) There has been a lot of discussion about crisis alpha with some hedge fund strategies like managed futures and the need for investors to build portfolios which will provide some crisis risk offset. There has been less talk about […]

(Harvest) Dr. Michael Burry was one of the heroes of Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , which tells the story about how he correctly predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse in 2008 and decided […]

(New York Post) Scaramucci’s White House bid may not be dead yet Well-known hedge fund executive Anthony Scaramucci, his possible White House gig already very much up in the air, could be facing a whopping tax bill if no Trump […]

(Hedgeweek) More than 150 senior executives from across the hedge fund industry have attended the first meeting of the new Data Management Working Group for the Alternatives Industry (DMWGAI)… To read this article:

(FINalternatives) Hedge funds continued their winning streak in February, returned an average of 1.08% during the month – the twelfth positive period in the last thirteen – and bringing year-to-date returns to +2.24%, according to new research provider eVestment. To […]

(FINalternatives) New data from Preqin reveals that fees charged by private debt funds during their investment periods, already in a downtrend since 2014, have reached an eight-year low among funds launched last year. To read this article:

(Reuters) Four individual investors of Peabody Energy Corp are accusing the company, certain hedge funds and other parties involved in the coal producer’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy of breaching their fiduciary duties, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday. The four […]

(Reuters) British hedge fund Man Group Plc named Michelle McCloskey as president of Man Americas. Michelle, who joined Man Group in 2006, will also be on Man Group’s executive committee and remain closely involved with Man FRM, which provides investment […]

(Yahoo) Gemini representatives accepted the “Best Administrator-Technology” awards at the Alt Credit U.S. Performance Awards 2017 and CTA Intelligence U.S. Performance Awards 2017 galas, held in New York City. The awards won by Gemini are given to managed futures service […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund Electron Capital Partners, which invests in global utilities and infrastructure companies, has hired Eric Melloul as a partner from financial services company TIAA, a person familiar with the move said on Thursday. Melloul, who joins the $610 […]

(Reuters) American International Group Inc (AIG.N) said on Thursday its Chief Executive Peter Hancock will step down, a decision he made after poor financial performance frustrated shareholders and the insurer’s board of directors. Hancock, 58, will remain as CEO until […]