(Agrimoney) Hedge funds sold down heavily in ags in the run up to Christmas – leaving themselves vulnerable to a clash with index funds, which many observers believe fuelled buying pressure in grains evident in Tuesday’s rally. Managed money, a […]

(FinAlternatives) Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt, further hampering two of Europe’s leading investment banks as they struggle with weak earnings. To […]

(Bloomberg) Leon Cooperman, the hedge-fund legend accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of insider trading, asked for its lawsuit to be dismissed, saying the regulator had revised its allegations after his lawyers had argued that he wasn’t bound […]

(Cay Compass) Changing investor demands are the top risk for the hedge fund industry, according to speakers at the EY Hedge Fund Symposium who cited results from the firm’s latest global hedge fund and investor survey. As poor performance, high […]

(The Business Insider) It’s a battle that has been playing out for some time, typically between market participants behind closed doors….Stock exchanges — in particular the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq — both publicly traded and for-profit… To read […]

(Bloomberg) Portfolio managers at hedge funds have another thing to worry about: the $2 million data scientist. Matt Ober, who left WorldQuant for Third Point, will be paid more than $2 million by Dan Loeb’s hedge fund, according to a […]

(Harvest) Following the Fed’s well telegraphed 25 basis point interest rate increase the market was surprised by the Fed’s more hawkish stance. Specifically, the Fed signaled three rate hikes in 2017, up from two previously. Surprisingly, these revisions occurred without […]

(Harvest) If you couldn’t tell from our recent monster commodity futures post, we’ve been thinking a lot about futures recently. The futures research area is relatively “fresh,” and a lot more exciting than hacking through equity stock selection research where […]

(eFinancial) When should hedge funds hire actual human beings to make discretionary investment decisions, and when should they leave those choices to pre-programmed algorithms? A new paper from Campbell Harvey, an academic at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and […]

(Bloomberg) This was the year to ridicule hedge funds. Pension funds, politicians, Warren Buffett, even hedge fund managers themselves — they all had something to say about the disappointing performance, high fees and market saturation. To read this article:

(New York Magazine) Donald Trump has decided that liberals shouldn’t be the only ones asking Santa for Xanax this Christmas: The president-elect has informed Republican-aligned business groups that he may impose a 5 percent tariff on all imports, according to […]