(Harvest) Looking to the past as a way to gauge the likely direction of the future is a popular exercise in the first quarter of every year. It’s a natural desire for people to want to improve on their personal […]

(Reuters) Former Millennium Capital Partners’ portfolio manager Michael Cowley plans to launch equities hedge fund Sandbar Asset Management later this year, three sources close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. Cowley could launch his equities hedge fund with up […]

(Bloomberg) Investors are betting big that OPEC’s cuts are real. Money managers are the most bullish ever on West Texas Intermediate crude for a second week as signs show OPEC and other nations are slashing production. The group cut supply […]

(Bloomberg) Babak Hodjat believes humans are too emotional for the stock market. So he’s started one of the first hedge funds run completely by artificial intelligence.”Humans have bias and sensitivities, conscious and unconscious,” says Hodjat, a computer scientist who helped […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund investment firms PAAMCO and KKR Prisma said on Monday they were merging, signaling more consolidation in the so-called funds of funds sector as assets continue to contract and clients demand more. The new firm, PAAMCO Prisma Holdings, […]

(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds slashed bullish bets on agricultural commodities, turning record bearish on cocoa and selling grains heavily – in a trend deemed supportive to prices, which some analysis says may be heading for a long-term recovery. Managed money, a […]

(Bloomberg) Harvard University raised $1.2 billion from donations, a record for the world’s richest college. The haul was erased by $2 billion in investment losses and spending…. To read this article:

(Coin Desk) In the world of hedge funds, the old adage really is true: you have to have money to make money.The barrier to entry for an individual investor is frequently $500,000, with portfolio managers themselves needing as much as […]

(Harvest) U.S. stocks have worked well since the 2008/09 financial crisis. Modern Portfolio Theory – broad asset class diversification has not. But I didn’t know it was this challenging. I was somewhat surprised to see this from Bloomberg : Endowments […]

(Harvest) Commodities were supposed to be the great portfolio diversifier, a real asset that protects against inflation, offered positive roll yield, and gains from a super cycle. The reality over the last eight years has been much different. The roll […]

(Bloomberg) The fast money is making a quick getaway. Hedge funds and other money managers cut net bullish bets on the U.S. dollar to the lowest since November, unwinding the Trump Trade that had lifted the greenback since the presidential […]

(Bloomberg) Deutsche Bank AG is about to eliminate staff at its trading business… a day after reporting results for the unit that missed analysts’ expectations. The bank will cut as much as 17 percent of staff globally in its equities […]