Category Archives: Syndicated
Investors Snub Money Managers for Market Clones
(Wall Street Journal) More investors are losing faith in old-school money managers as financial markets sputter. Clients yanked $207.3 billion in 2015 from U.S.-based mutual funds that hand pick their positions while pouring $413.8 billion into funds that mimic broad […]
Ex-Foundry Executive Loses U.S. Insider Trading Appeal
(Reuters) A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a former executive of Foundry Networks Inc who was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison after being convicted for leaking inside information about the company to a hedge fund […]
Chinese Regulator Asks Banks to Cut Wealth Management Yields
(Reuters) China’s banking regulator and main bond clearinghouse have asked commercial banks to reduce rates they offer on high-yielding wealth management products (WMPs), five sources told Reuters, an apparent back-pedalling on commitments to let markets price credit.The move to suppress […]
Institutional Demand Expected to Continue to Drive Flows into Hedge Funds in 2016
(Valuewalk.com) eVestment’s 2016 Hedge Fund Industry Outlook highlights data-driven predictions of hedge fund trends for the upcoming year. A few key points include: With interest in multi-strategy products as a key source of support, less drag from credit and event […]
Schroder’s Outlook 2016 – US Equities
(Harvest) There is little doubt that some of the biggest risks to equity markets last year – depressed commodity prices, slowing growth in China, and uncertain economic data points in Europe as well as the US, all accompanied by dollar […]
Jump Start Your Fund Marketing Tactics
(Harvest) 2016 will not offer an easy path to follow on the way to asset gathering. Effective marketing can lead to new prospects, which in turn can lead to new assets, so it is vital to focus on the impact […]
Chinese Regulator Asks Banks to Cut Wealth Management Yields
(Reuters) China’s banking regulator and main bond clearinghouse have asked commercial banks to reduce rates they offer on high-yielding wealth management products (WMPs), five sources told Reuters, an apparent back-pedalling on commitments to let markets price credit.The move to suppress […]
Momentum Darlings Hit Wall in S&P 500 as Hedge Fund Stocks Slide
(Bloomberg) Trades that kept the ceiling from crashing in last year are giving way now, as momentum stocks and others beloved by hedge fund managers lead a plunge that is pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toward its August […]
Top Quant Hedge Funds Stand Out With Good 2015
(Forbes) Last year, while the average hedge fund was losing money and several prominent hedge funds were getting clobbered by the markets, David Siegel got on a stage at a conference attended by investment professionals and declared that “eventually the […]
Hedge Fund Billionaire Steve Cohen Can Manage Money in 2018: SEC
(Fox Business) Hedge fund honcho Steven A. Cohen is on the comeback trail. On Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed that Cohen can return to supervising funds that manage outside money in 2018. The concession is part of a […]
Hedge Funds Stars Join Losers’ Club For First Time
(Reuters) An elite group of hedge fund managers must have awakened on Jan. 1 with an unusual type of hangover: their first annual loss.Large funds managed by King Street Capital Management, CQS, Pine River Capital Management, Metacapital Management, DW Partners […]
Hedge fund Conatus Capital revamps management
(Reuters) Conatus Capital Management, David Stemerman’s $2 billion hedge fund firm, has revamped its top management after the departure of its president, Kevin Burke.Burke left at the end of 2015, according to people familiar with the situation, a year when […]