(Bloomberg) Bond bears were licking their wounds after a weaker-than-forecast May jobs report sent Treasuries surging. Data released later Friday suggest the pain was widespread. Hedge funds and other speculative investors were net short Treasury two-year note futures in the […]

(Harvest) The news lately regarding hedge funds has been abysmal,to say the least! Very poor performance coupled with high fees has caused an exodus out of hedge funds and into other investment vehicles. In fact, the very same thing has […]

(The Business Insider) A new report shows which industries some of the world’s biggest hedge funds are investing in. And the short version is that they’re betting on you, the consumer. The world’s ten largest long/short equity funds are bullish […]

(Bloomberg) Strike $6 million from the total that Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara extracted from hedge funds and executives caught in his seven-year insider-trading dragnet. U.S. prosecutors have agreed to return that amount to Diamondback Capital Management LLC in a […]

(Bloomberg) For centuries the rolling hills of Sussex in southern England have grown barley for local beer brewers. Now former hedge-fund manager Mark Driver is replacing the grain on his land with grapes in a bid to challenge Champagne. Driver, […]

(Gulf News) Taylor Woods Capital Management, one of the world’s best performing hedge fund firms in 2015, lost 7.3 per cent in the first five months of the year as bets on commodities soured, according to a letter to investors […]

(Bloomberg) UBS Group AG is advising its wealthiest clients to stick with hedge funds even after the $2.9 trillion industry had its worst start to a year since 2008. While the days of “double-digit and triple-digit returns” for hedge funds […]

(Reuters) – Investors pulled approximately $1 billion from the PIMCO Total Return Fund, one of the world’s largest bond funds, in May following cash withdrawals of the same amount the previous month, the Newport Beach, California-based firm said on Thursday. […]

(Harvest) This piece follows the approach of our earlier articles on crowding: We processed regulatory filings of over 1,000 hedge funds and created a position-weighted portfolio (HF Aggregate) consisting of all tractable hedge fund long U.S. equity portfolios. We then […]

(Valuewalk) The hedge fund industry just can’t seem to catch a break this year….However, there’s one section of the hedge fund world that seems to be doing better than others. After years of haemorrhaging clients and cash, commodities hedge funds […]

(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management’s main portfolio climbed 1.2 percent in May as some of its biggest investments, Bank of New York Mellon and Sotheby’s, performed better.The May returns helped shrink the fund’s year-to-date decline to 8.7 percent […]

(Reuters) Jeffrey Gundlach’s DoubleLine Capital reached $100 billion in assets under management last month, the Los Angeles-based firm said on Wednesday. DoubleLine, founded in December 2009 and considered one of the fastest-growing asset managers in the United States, benefited from […]