Category Archives: Syndicated

Fund Managers Remain Upbeat Amid Soaring Market

(Barron’s) There’s plenty of talk that the U.S. stock market – which saw the Dow Jones industrial average Tuesday breach 26,000 for the first time – is a bubble about to pop, but fund managers remain optimistic. In fact, they […]

Asset Base For The Hedge Fund Industry Grew by $219.0 Billion in 2017

(Valuewalk) Hedge funds were up 8.25% for the year – almost 79% of fund managers are in positive territory for the year while another 19% have outperformed the MSCI ACWI Local Index which was up 17.55% in 2017. Back in […]

10 Stocks That Can Outperform in 2018:

(Investopedia) Investors should reduce tech stocks to an equal weight allocation in their portfolios, while going overweight in financials and industrials, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. To read this article:

Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Adds Stakes in Brighthouse and Twitter

(Bloomberg) David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital is touting a new stake in Brighthouse Financial Inc., an annuities and life insurance company spun out of MetLife Inc. in August, as the hedge fund tries to rebound from a disappointing year. Brighthouse, which […]

Hedge Fund Bulls Have Left Oil Market Looking Very Stretched

(Reuters) Hedge funds and other money managers have boosted their bullish position in oil to a new record, but with crude taking over from fuels as the main target of fresh buying. Hedge funds boosted their net long position in […]

Can Hedge Funds Handle a Bitcoin Bust?

(Bloomberg) Hedge fund managers have been lying awake at night for years worrying about poor performance, weak volatility and whether it might be time to just move on and do something else — like get into Bitcoin maybe. The allure […]

Fund managers are loving stocks right now

(Business Insider) According to fund managers, the world is awesome.In particular, stocks.That’s the prevailing view in the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) Global Fund Manager survey with respondents long, unprotected and expecting the bull market of the past […]

Rokos Hedge Fund Is Said to Lose in 2017 as Macro Peers Suffer

(Bloomberg) Chris Rokos’s hedge fund lost 3.4 percent last year, joining a number of large macro-trading peers who struggled to make money, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.The Rokos Global Macro Master Fund lost most of the […]

Carillion Collapse Hits Banks and Investors, Boosts Short Sellers

(Reuters) Leading British lenders including Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group face the prospect of hundreds of millions of pounds in outstanding loans going unpaid from Carillion’s collapse on Monday. Along with 10 other banks, they […]

Bitcoin Frenzy Helps Crypto Hedge Funds Reap 1,100% Gains

(Bloomberg) While most of the world’s institutional investors watched from the sidelines as cryptocurrencies surged last year, a small group of hedge fund managers piled in.Call them visionaries or just plain lucky, but boy did they hit the jackpot. The […]

Hedge Funds Are Making Money From Exotic Bets

(Bloomberg) Cheese, sunflower seeds and rough rice sounds like an unappetizing mix — unless you happen to be a hedge-fund manager. A handful of computer-driven funds had a bumper 2017 by betting on the future price of such “exotic” assets. […]

Ex-UBS Banker Gets $306,500 in Suit Over Who Harassed Whom

(Bloomberg) A former UBS Group AG executive in Paris labeled as “aggressive” by his ex-boss was awarded 250,000 euros ($306,500) in an unfair-dismissal fight where both sides accused the other of harassment… To read this article: