(Benzinga) Leon Cooperman, Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, disclosed on Friday an increase of more than 48 percent in his exposure to PennyMac. The hedge fund manager, who had last declared holding roughly 2.6 million shares of the Mortgage […]

(Business Insider) What is a hedge fund anyway? The August market swings made it clear that question is getting harder to answer.Broadly, hedge fund managers are meant to be experts at controlling risk and generating profits, no matter what the […]

(Business Times) Chinese hedge funds are moving into commodities after Beijing’s steps to tame volatility in equity markets restricted trading activity in stock futures, fund managers said on Thursday. China has unleashed a slew of measures to prop up its […]

(MarketWatch) Blaming the investment strategy known as risk parity for surging market volatility and the under-performance of some equity funds has become fashionable, but it might stem from a misunderstanding about how the approach works. To read this report:

(Reuters) The risk of deflation in China is growing, data suggested on Wednesday, as policymakers tried to reassure markets that the economy can stay on track and state banks were suspected of intervening in offshore markets to bolster the yuan. […]

(Reuters) The sharp falls in global stock markets in August potentially offer hedge funds that decide to bet on the outcome of merger deals a chance to make some juicy returns. A plunge in China’s equity markets last month that […]

(Business Wire) IndexIQ, a pioneer and leading provider of innovative investment solutions, today announced the performance of its proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indexes. Designed as investable benchmarks that replicate the performance characteristics of sophisticated hedge […]

(Reuters) American private equity firm KKR & Co is buying a stake in European hedge fund operator Marshall Wace, raising its bets on the rapidly growing $3 trillion industry. KKR will acquire a 24.9 percent stake in the London-based company, […]

(Securities & Exchange Commission) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Bellevue, Wash.-based investment advisory firm and its CEO with fraudulently inflating the values of investments in the portfolio of a private fund they advised so they could attain […]

(Bloomberg) Now that turbulence has resurfaced in the stock market, the biggest traders are piling into bets that it’s going to last. Hedge funds and other large speculators just doubled wagers that U.S. equity volatility will increase, a week after […]

(MarketWatch) Automated trading is largely to blame for extreme volatility that is scaring retail investors out of the market, a well-known hedge-fund manager said Tuesday. “I think the machines seem to be taking over,” Omega Advisors chairman and chief executive […]

(Bloomberg) Add the world’s biggest stock-index futures market to the list of casualties from China’s interventionist campaign to stop a $5 trillion equity rout. Volumes in the country’s CSI 300 Index and CSI 500 Index futures sank to record lows […]