Monthly Archives: January 2016
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 […]
Bill Ackman Can’t Catch A Break
New York (HedgeCo.net) – After enduring one of his worst years as a hedge fund manager in 2015, Bill Ackman isn’t seeing much of a change to start 2016. Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. Lost 20.5% in 2015 as one […]
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 […]
Goldman Sachs Strategists See U.S. Bull Market in Last Innings
(Bloomberg) U.S. stocks are nearing the end of a long bull market, according to investment strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who cater to the bank’s wealthy individual clients. “We expect a few more innings and are cautiously optimistic,” according […]
Windhaven Founder Stephen Cucchiaro Starts Macro Hedge Fund
(Bloomberg) Stephen Cucchiaro, who helped build Windhaven Investment Management into a more than $19 billion asset manager, has started a firm that runs a macro hedge fund.3EDGE Asset Management, which began this month, seeks to identify the impact of factors […]
Crispin Odey and His Fund are Off to a Fast Start in 2016
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Crispin Odey, like many other fund managers, had a tough time in 2015 and his Odey European fund lost 12.8% last year. But according to a recent article from eFinancialNews, Odey is off to fast start […]