(Bloomberg) Startups wielding sensors and algorithms promise a new era of surveillance…. Companies including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have had discussions with tech companies about systems that monitor worker emotions to boost performance and compliance, according to executives […]

(Bloomberg) Like so many relationships nowadays, this one was cemented through Netflix. It was October 2006 and Jaffray Woodriff was having trouble concentrating on his quantitative hedge-fund business. The programmer kept finding himself obsessing instead over a million-dollar contest that […]

(Harvest) Emerging Asian markets have continued to rise in August, particularly China. Investor sentiment towards emerging Asia has improved markedly since Brexit occurred in June. This marks the first time since we formed Chinus Asset Management in 2008 that investor […]

(Harvest) Are mortgage-backed securities safe yield plays?” – Greg Parsons, Semper Capital CEO, discussing the “hunt for yield” through mortgage-backed securities on CNBC’s Halftime Report on August 30, 2016. Click below and join Semper’s network to view this and access […]

(CNBC) Investors pulled a net $34 billion from global hedge funds during the first half of 2016, according to research from data provider Preqin, but the fund flows also reveal several clear strategies that are proving successful within the industry…. […]

(Bloomberg) Like so many relationships nowadays, this one was cemented through Netflix. It was October 2006 and Jaffray Woodriff was having trouble concentrating on his quantitative hedge-fund business. The programmer kept finding himself obsessing instead over a million-dollar contest that […]

(New York Post) Goldman Sachs is a money-making machine — literally. The Wall Street firm is planning for a future when more bond trading is done automatically by computers…The program, called Goldman Sachs Algorithm, has been around for about a […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund Premium Point Investments has sold a $6.2 billion mortgage bond portfolio, the largest sale of its kind in nearly two years, a person with knowledge of the transaction told IFR. Several investors said the timing of the […]

(Agrimoney.com) The extent of the latest lurch lower in grain prices appears to have taken by surprise even hedge funds, which had cut their bearish bets on the complex – raising questions over whether fresh selling lies in wait… To […]

(Reuters) Mark Schulze and Jason Vogt, veterans of Cargill and its Black River Asset Management unit, are preparing to launch their own commodity-focused hedge fund, according to a person familiar with the situation. The two men set up Minneapolis-based Twin […]

(Fin Alternatives) A court filing in Manhattan federal court has revealed that a junior trader at Visium Asset Management secretly recorded more than 125 conversations, or some 200 hours of material, with former colleagues at the $8 billion hedge fund […]

(Reuters) Some U.S. private equity firms are reportedly courting their biggest and savviest investors with access to co-investments without informing other investors, according to Reuters, which can save them millions in fees but may also risk SEC scrutiny. To read […]