Category Archives: Syndicated

Hedge Funds Raising Tech Investment As AI, Cybersecurity Risks Loom

(FinAlternatives) Hedge fund managers are investing into technology in order to solve regulatory and operational issues as well as to carve out competitive advantages, according to the 2016 KPMG/AIMA/MFA Global Hedge Fund Survey. To read this article:

Hedge Funds Holding Puerto Rico Sales-Tax Bonds Ask to Halt Suit

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds holding Puerto Rico revenue bonds are asking a court to postpone a lawsuit filed by general-obligation bondholders seeking to stop the commonwealth from directing sales-tax revenue away from the general fund. GoldenTree Asset Management LP, Merced Capital […]

Hedge Funds Are Getting Whacked, and It Could Spell Bad News For The Global Economy

Hedge Funds Are Getting Whacked, and It Could Spell Bad News For The Global Economy The Business Insider posted on Fri 21 Oct 2016 Permalink Print NY-based Rosebrook Capital Partners is a hedge fund that buys hedge fund stakes in […]

Squeezing Hedge Funds Is Path to Profit at Three Big Banks

(Bloomberg) In the battle for supremacy on Wall Street’s equity trading desks, the most successful banks are dangling a precious resource in front of hedge-fund clients: a balance sheet.Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. grabbed […]

Fanning the Flames of Inflation

(Harvest) Since 2009, tremendous central bank inflationary monetary policies on a global scale have been met with deflationary inflation expectations in what some refer to as a Keynesian liquidity trap. The result is the largest global financial asset bubble of […]

Investors Pull 1 Percent Of Hedge Fund Capital in Third Quarter

(Reuters) Investors frustrated by poor returns and high fees at hedge funds pulled out roughly 1 percent of industry capital in the third quarter, with outflows totaling $28 billion. This puts the hedge fund sector on track for its first […]

Steve Cohen is going global to recruit for his $11 billion hedge fund

(Yahoo Finance) Point72 Asset Management, the $11 billion family-office hedge fund led by Steven A. Cohen, is now looking for the best young recruits internationally. The firm’s Point72 Academy — a program aimed at training new college grads — has […]

Liquid Alternatives Veteran Takes Over Fund To Expand Alterantives Offering To Advisors And Investors

(Opalesque) Liquid alternative investment veteran, Dick Pfister, founded AlphaCore Capital to bring alternative investments to private clients in an independent, boutique setting. A year later, the La Jolla-based firm’s success and demand from advisors for sub-advisory services have led the […]

SS&C GlobeOp: Forward Redemption Indicator Falls to 3.40%

(FinAlternatives) Amid industry reports that hedge fund redemptions in the third quarter were at the highest level since the financial crisis, new data from SS&C GlobeOp suggests the pace going forward may be a bit slower. To read this article:

Allianz Global Investors To Close Structured Alpha Liquid Alt to New Investors

(FinAlternatives) Allianz Global Investors has closed one of their most popular liquid alternatives strategy to new investors as the fund nears its capacity limit of $7 billion. To read this article:

Hedge Fund Managers Struggle to Master Their Miserable New World

(Bloomberg) Howard Fischer, wearing a white shirt and khakis, leans back into a window seat at a juice bar in Greenwich, Connecticut, sips a cold-brewed Mexican mocha and shares his angst. “It’s miserable, miserable,” the 57-year-old manager of $1.1 billion […]

Banks’ Brexit Exodus to Start Before Year-End

(Bloomberg) Banks in the U.K. will start relocating operations out of the country by year-end, months before formal talks to leave the European Union begin, as London looks set to lose access to the EU single market, the head of […]