(FinAlternatives) All the major hedge fund segments tracked by eVestment ended 2016 in positive territory, driving the firm’s aggregate hedge fund metric to its best return since 2013 despite pervasive investor dissatisfaction that culled some $83 billion in redemptions from […]

(FinAlternatives) Global alternative assets services provider Citco has debuted a new automated system that will assist its private equity firm clients with various ILPA fee reporting requirements. To read this article:

(The Business Insider) Two Wall Street trading startups are in talks to combine forces.Electronifie, a bond-trading platform led by former Goldman Sachs trader Amar Kuchinad, is in exclusive talks to be acquired by TruMid, another trading startup backed by George […]

(Investopedia) Although hedge fund returns are actually looking up (at least in comparison with the most recent years), firms and their management are nonetheless facing a growing client revolt. According to reporting by Bloomberg, hedge fund managers have continued to […]

(Harvest) For 2016, the hedge fund industry returned +5.34%, according to the just-released eVestment December and Year-End 2016 Hedge Fund Performance Report. This is a significant rebound following a -0.72% aggregate return in 2015, which set the stage for investors […]

(Bloomberg) What happens when you take the “short” out of a long-short trading strategy? Some hedge funds are about to find out. Equity long-short fund managers, the biggest category in hedge funds, hold the fewest bearish stock bets on record, […]

(FinAlternatives) Dr. Martin Coward’s quantitative investment manager dormouse suffered a rare stumble in December, losing -2.94% as the broader CTA segment remained under pressure. To read this article:

(Reuters) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has partially overturned a ruling finding an investment adviser featured in the best-seller “The Big Short” liable in a case stemming from the 2008-09 financial crisis, but it increased how much he owes. […]

(Bloomberg) Double Haven Capital (Hong Kong), a credit hedge-fund firm that profited last year as most of the industry struggled to make money, is betting against Chinese high-yield bonds as many investors are seeing risks mount in this part of […]

(Bloomberg) Chris Rokos’s hedge fund gained about 20 percent in 2016, its first full year of trading, to become one of the world’s best performing money pools betting on economic trends, according to people with knowledge of the matter. About […]

(Valuewalk) Hedge funds gained 1.01% during the month of December, with 2016 returns coming in at 4.48%. Meanwhile, underlying markets as represented by the MSCI AC World Index (Local) gained 2.38% in December with its 2016 returns coming in at […]

(Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs Group Inc., once a skeptic of speed for its own sake in equity markets, is doubling down on automated trading. Long a leading destination for hedge funds where humans pick what to trade, Goldman Sachs hasn’t fared […]