(Benzinga) Citing Doug Haynes, the president of Steve Cohen’s investment firm, Point72 Asset Management, Business Insider reported the hedge fund industry has a well-documented performance problem, which is directly connected to a lack of diversity in the industry. Hedge funds […]

(The Business Insider) Dan Sparks helped Goldman Sachs’ mortgage unit make more than $1 billion off the financial crisis. Now investors are piling into his new hedge fund — and backing its strategy of betting on homeowners. Shelter Growth Capital […]

(Reuters) An oil hedge fund run by London-based AlphaGen Capital, a subsidiary of Henderson Global Investors, has made gains of almost 60 percent in the year to July 12, the firm confirmed to Reuters. AlphaGen’s 59.9 percent return in its […]

(Bloomberg) Quantedge Global Fund gained 12 percent last month to return almost three times as much as global peers, as bond holdings gained amid the market dislocation that followed the unexpected U.K. decision to leave the European Union. The June […]

(The Business Insider) The activist hedge fund ValueAct has agreed to pay $11 million in a settlement with the Department of Justice, the highest ever settlement for the charge the fund faced. ValueAct is paying following allegations that it didn’t […]

(FinAlternatives) Credit Suisse today announced the results of its mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Sentiment Survey, which polled more than 200 global institutional investors representing almost $700 billion in hedge fund investments. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Running an underperforming hedge fund? Your clients are noticing. Eighty-four percent of investors in hedge funds pulled money in the first half of the year, and 61 percent said they will probably make withdrawals later this year, according to […]

(New York Post) Hedge funds are down, but far from out. The New York state pension is among the big-money investors pumping more money into hedge funds and other “alternative investments” despite bad publicity and public pressure. The $178 billion […]

(Daily Alts) RIAs Like Alts But Not In Love Current ProductsArtivest, the technology-driven platform for alternative investments, conducted a survey of 163 financial advisors and registered investment advisors (“RIAs”) at the 2016 Morningstar Investment Conference, which was held June 13-14 […]

(FinAlternatives) Hedge funds beat underlying markets during June, according to a flash update of the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index, which posted its fourth consecutive positive monthly return in June. To read this article:

(Agrimoney) Hedge funds accelerated their rate of selling in grains, fuelled by a hike in bearish bets on Chicago wheat to near-record levels – provoking ideas that a rout which has taken prices to 10-year lows may be spent….. To […]

(Bloomberg) 36 South Capital Advisors, a London-based volatility hedge fund, was surprised at how rapidly calm returned to markets after the initial Brexit shock spurred massive price swings such as the pound’s widest one-day range on record. While the fund […]