Category Archives: Syndicated
Golden Ticket Hedge Funds Battered in Rough Start to 2016
(Reuters) Big-name hedge funds favored by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took a battering in the first quarter of 2016, with some posting their worst-ever start to a year on record. Most funds […]
Hedge-Fund Demand for London Offices Drops to Lowest Since 2012
(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and private equity firms took the least amount of office space in central London since the start of 2012 in the first quarter, according to broker Cushman & Wakefield Inc., as sputtering global growth and increased regulation […]
Multialternative Funds: The Best and Worst of March
(Daily ALts) Multialternative Funds The Best and Worst of March Multialternative mutual funds and ETFs returned an average of +1.33% in March, bringing the category’s total return to -0.67% for the first quarter of 2016. As a group, the category […]
Asia Hedge Funds Rebound in March After Worst Start on Record
(Bloomberg) Asia-focused hedge funds including those managed by APS Asset Management, Springs Capital and Pine River Capital Management gained in March as a market rebound helped managers claw back from the worst start to the year on record. Both the […]
You Don’t Have A Performance Problem. You Have An Image Problem.
(Harvest) In our industry, most think that it is all about performance. Generalizing, managers do everything for it, and they feel entitled when they get it. In the “old days,” that was fine. The return profile offered by hedge funds […]
Hedge Funds: Worst Stock-Picking Quarter In Years
(Valuewalk) Hedge funds posted an average return of 1.9% last month, but they were still down for the year with the average return at -9% year to date. It looks like things could change this month though as early numbers […]
How Japan Became a Hedge Fund Wasteland
(Bloomberg) Demand for hedge funds is about to skyrocket in Japan, but don’t expect supply to follow suit.So says Ed Rogers, head of Rogers Investment Advisors, who kept his business alive in Tokyo when the financial crisis forced many of […]
Stubborn Hedge Fund Buying A ‘Huge Surprise’ For Sugar Markets
(Agrimoney) Hedge funds once again startled the markets, by holding on stubbornly to long positions in the face of a sugar sell-off. Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulator showed that in the week to last Tuesday, managed […]
Och-ziff Shares Tumble as Bribery Probe Spooks Investors
(Reuters) Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM.N) shares dropped 24 percent to a record low on Tuesday on the possibility that the U.S. hedge fund would have to plead guilty to bribing government officials in Africa.The U.S. Justice Department is pushing for […]
Currency-Hedged Funds—Safer or Riskier Thanks to Derivatives?
(Wall Street Journal) A government proposal meant to limit the use of risky derivatives could hamper an increasingly popular breed of mutual funds that hedge against currency risks. Individual investors in recent years have flocked to mutual funds and exchange-traded […]
Fidelity Calls It Quits on Blackstone’s Hedge Fund for the Masses
(Fortune) On Thursday, Blackstone announced it was closing up the Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund, though the firm said the fund had outpaced the broader hedge fund industry over this same period, based on the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. Blackstone’s […]
Chan’s Hedge Fund Bets on Asian Currencies Emulating Yen
(Bloomberg) Charlie Chan, a former Credit Suisse Group AG proprietary trader whose hedge fund profited from the yen’s slump in 2014, is now betting that the Japanese currency’s resurgence versus the dollar will benefit Asian peers. The region’s currencies are […]