(Fin Alternatives) Hedge funds got a helping hand from accommodative global central banks in the week through September 20, 2016, according to the latest edition of Lyxor Asset Management’s Weekly Brief. To read this article:

(Fin Alternatives) Macro hedge fund Brevan Howard, one of Europe’s largest alternative investment managers, will reportedly lower the fees it charges on its flagship Master and Multi-Strategy funds. To read this article:

(Business Insider) Jamie Sterne has raised $75 million for his new hedge fund. No big deal, you might think. There are hundreds of hedge fund launches every year. Except Jamie Sterne is just 28 years old. Sterne launched Skye Global […]

(Chicago Tribune) AAM Absolute Return Fund, which according to HSBC Holdings was the world’s best performing hedge fund in 2015, is betting on declines for energy companies that “even short term will struggle to uphold dividends.” To read this article:

(Harvest) Institutional investors are exploiting the illiquid credit space vacated by banks facing stricter regulation and ongoing stress tests, according to global professional services company Towers Watson (NASDAQ: TW). The company’s clients have allocated over $7 billion to illiquid credit […]

(Hedgetracker.com) The rankings for the Top Central U.S. Hedge Funds have been released, revealing that the top 50 hedge funds oversee a combined $125 billion in equity assets, having seen their assets increase by 1.8% quarter-over-quarter. Driving the region’s positive […]

(Fin Alternative) Global investors pulled $7.4 billion from equity funds in the week through September 21, the largest outflow in around three months amid uncertainty over U.S. and Japanese monetary policy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said Friday. To read […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators raised bullish dollar wagers to a seven-month high before the Federal Reserve scaled back the outlook for rate increases in 2017 at last week’s policy meeting. Wagers for the dollar to gain against […]

(Bloomberg) As hedge funds hemorrhage cash at the fastest pace since the financial crisis, a new crop of money managers is starting to buck the trend in Europe with backing from some of the industry’s biggest names, including George Soros […]

(Valuewalk.com) The redemption pressures weighing heavily on the hedge fund industry mostly abated in August. After outflows in June and July nearly reminiscent of the tailend of the global financial crisis, investors’ dissatisfaction with 2015 performance may be exhausted. While […]

(The Daily Mail) Reuters reports the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan this summer pulled cash from 10 of the 20 hedge funds in its portfolio which use computer algorithms….”They expressed that a lot of strategies today you can mimic with a […]

(HITC Business) Thousands of jobs could go. Commerzbank is planning to cut thousands of jobs as it revamps its strategy to contend with the drag on earnings from ultra low interest rates and lacklustre demand for loans, sources familiar with […]