Category Archives: Syndicated
Hedge fund managers hesitate over forthcoming AIFMD regulations
AT – Preqin, the supplier of data and intelligence to the alternative investment industry, has found in a recent survey of 220 hedge fund managers, that there is still uncertainty surrounding the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) among many managers, with […]
High Mortgage Rates? Hedge Fund Legend Still Says ‘Buy a Home’
Wall Street Cheat Sheet – With a heavy amount of intervention from the Federal Reserve, the real estate market has rebounded from its worst levels during the Great Recession. Some Americans are worried about rising interest rates and affordability, but […]
NY Times College Sex Story Inspires Hedge Fund Manager To Offer Biting Dating Advice
Gothamist – We live in a world of consequences: if enough people can’t stop talking about Sharknado on Twitter, we get Sharknado 2: NYC Boogaloo immediately greenlit. And if the NY Times is going to continue to publish 4,800 word […]
Hedge Fund Titans Share Their “New Best Idea” For Investing
BuzzFeed – Australian trains, European autos, U.S. drugs, and Japanese robots. That’s what some of the hedge fund industry’s heaviest hitters offered up as their new big ideas at the CNBC/Institutional Investor “Delivering Alpha” conference Wednesday at the Pierre hotel […]
Hedge Funds Have First Amendment Rights Too! Says Hoenig
Yahoo – Last week the SEC lifted an 80 year-old ban forbidding hedge funds from advertising to the general public. Under the terms of the new rule, funds will still only be allowed to accept money from so-called qualified investors […]
Commodity hedge funds suffer longest losing streak on record
Reuters – Funds betting on commodity price moves have lost money every month since January, their joint longest losing streak on record, raising more doubts about their ability to make money at a time when the commodity “supercycle” may be […]
Barclays, Traders Fined $487.9 Million by U.S. Regulator
Bloomberg – Barclays PLC and four former traders were ordered to pay a combined $487.9 million in fines and penalties by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for engaging in what the agency said was a scheme to manipulate energy […]
Sunofia to launch market neutral strategy
Sunofia Capital Management, LLC, a global asset management firm specializing in systematic strategies, today announced plans to launch a market neutral strategy. The strategy will initially invest in European and Japanese liquid equities and will subsequently add liquid North American […]
Hedge Fund Trading Changes to Withstand Greater Scrutiny and Tougher Markets, Says TABB
Herald Online – According to the eighth annual benchmark study from TABB Group, “US Hedge Fund Equity Trading 2013: Better Practices for the Age of Transparency,” regulatory scrutiny by the SEC and the brutal dogfight for scarce alpha are pushing […]
Bridgewater’s McCormick says hedge fund is long U.S. Treasuries
Reuters – Blackstone Group LP, one of the world’s biggest hedge fund investors, is now giving retail clients a taste of these normally exclusive portfolios through a new mutual fund. The Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund (BXMXX) will be run by […]
Hedge Fund Fees: Exotic Expenses
Forbes – Back in 2008, Warren Buffett made a bet with Protégé Partners, a fund of funds hedge fund manager, that the S&P500 would beat a group of hedge fund managers selected by Protégé. The bet officially started on January […]
Top Witness for the S.E.C. Turns Testy on the Stand
NYT – Paolo Pellegrini has been lauded as an architect of one of the biggest hedge fund victories in recent memory: Paulson & Company’s audacious bet against subprime home loans in 2007. But in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Tuesday, […]