(Reuters) Investors are showing increasing comfort wading into the markets, lavishing cash on U.S.-based stock and corporate bond funds in the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday. Those stock funds attracted $2.7 billion during the week ended Feb. 22, […]

(Reuters) Emerging market equities have a spring in their step as an upswing in company profits extends a year-long 40 percent rally in the sector and allows investors to look past the threat of a global trade war. MSCI’s emerging […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp said on Thursday it had raised its stake in specialty metals maker Arconic Inc to about 13 percent and stepped up pressure for the ouster of Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld. Elliott also made a […]

(The Business Insider) A former Citadel money manager is gearing up for one of this year’s biggest hedge fund launches. Brandon Haley’s Holocene Advisors is planning to launch with about $1 billion on April 3.. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Henry Jones has been named Chair and Bill Slaton Vice Chair of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s investment committee. Jones was first elected to the CalPERS in 2007 by retired CalPERS members. He was re-elected to terms beginning […]

(Harvest) Uncertainty about US trade policy changes that could potentially harm emerging market economies dragged them down 4% during the fourth quarter of 2016, underperforming developed markets by 2%. Yet emerging market economies generally showed positive signs, with exports beginning […]

(Reuters) – Stock market optimism about U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic agenda is overdone and political risk in Europe isn’t priced in, according to some hedge funds who are betting that the rally in equities is coming to an end. […]

(FINalternatives) Liquid alternatives specialist Beachhead Capital Management has announced the inclusion of two of its strategies in Mercury Capital Advisors’ iFunds platform. To read this article:

(FINalternatives) Alternative investors have significantly increased their asset class diversity over the past year, according to new research from data provider Preqin, while satisfaction with private equity is at record levels. More than a third of investors have exposure to […]

(Bloomberg) J Sainsbury Plc may need a rights offering as margins shrink amid fierce competition among U.K. supermarket operators, according to Marshall Wace LLP, a U.K. hedge-fund firm that’s betting on a decline in the company’s shares. “Sainsbury’s balance sheet […]

(Reuters) China’s 2015 market crash sparked a surge in Asian trading for futures exchange giant CME Group as Chinese funds hedged their risk offshore and growth prospects remain strong, the bourse’s head of Asia said on Tuesday. Christopher Fix, managing […]

(Bloomberg) BlackRock and Fidelity are betting Brazil’s world-beating stock surge over the past year has yet to run its course. William Landers, a money manager at New York-based BlackRock, says he entered the year with a “pretty big overweight” in […]