(FinAlternatives) Large traditional asset managers are gearing up to significantly boost their allocations to a range of investment classes including alternatives, private loans and equities, according to a new survey from industry software and services specialist SS&C Technologies. To read […]

(Bloomberg) Oil investors are growing more doubtful that OPEC can seal a deal. Money managers reduced bets on higher oil prices by the most since July 2014 after the group failed to agree on country quotas in talks on Oct. […]

(New York Times) David P. Swenson is legendary in the rarefied world of endowment management. He has pioneered an investment strategy that expanded Yale’s portfolio from a plain-vanilla mix of stocks and bonds to substantial holdings in real estate, private […]

(New York Times) Steven A. Cohen is helping veterans who have post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injuries and doing research into diagnostic tools and treatments for those conditions. “I wanted to do something big,” he added. “I wanted to do […]

(Harvest) October was a painful month for investors with no place to hide in many sectors, styles, countries, or bonds. Major equity styles declined significantly especially in small caps. The only market sectors to provide investor gains were finance and […]

(New York Times) The next president may have a rare opportunity to close tax loopholes that have let American corporations stash more than $2 trillion in untaxed profits outside the United States. This enormous hoard of stranded cash has barely […]

(Opalesque) The low breadth in the hedge fund industry and the financial market is causing crowdedness, but it’s not always a bad thing, said Katherine Grant, equity and hedge fund specialist of LGT Capital Partners. Grant explained at the latest […]

(Bloomberg) To understand how fearful investors are of all the wild cards in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, just take a look at the gold market. Hedge funds are piling into the perceived safety of bullion, increasing their wagers that the […]

(Daily ALts) Strategic Investor Radio Charley Wright In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Cathie Wood. Ms. Wood is the CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, which is headquartered in New York City. She has more […]

(Bloomberg) Losses at Leda Braga’s computer-driven hedge fund this year are running at about twice the level suffered by a macro fund run by billionaire Alan Howard. Yet, while Braga has raised money, investors have pulled billions of dollars from […]

(FinAlternatives) The blistering pace of fundraising for private debt funds over the past several years may be slowing, according to recent data from Preqin showing a sharp fall in European private debt activity so far this year. To read this […]

(FinAlternatives) Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched a new exchange-traded fund designed to track the company’s well-known Hedge Fund VIP Index of stocks that appear most frequently among the top ten positions of hedge funds. To read this article: