Monthly Archives: January 2013
US banks agree $18.5bn settlements in effort to clean up mortgage crisis
Guardian – Ten US banks announced two huge settlements worth a total of $18.5bn on Monday, in the latest moves to clear up claims relating to the mortgage crisis that foreshadowed the meltdown of the American economy. Bank of America […]
Agecroft Partners Predicts Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends for 2013
Agecroft Partners predicts that the hedge fund industry will set a new record for assets in 2013 despite the lackluster investment performance for the industry over the past two years. This will be driven by pension funds increasing their asset […]
Hedge Funds Are Buying These 4 BRIC Stocks
Seeking Alpha – Interested in emerging markets? If so, here are some ideas to get you started. We ran a screen on US-traded stocks from the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) for those seeing the most significant net […]
Hedge Funds Squeezed With Shorts Beating S&P 500
Bloomberg – Speculators are abandoning money- losing bets that stocks with the closest links to the U.S. economy will fall as America’s most-hated shares stage the best rally in a year relative to the broader market. The 20 stocks with […]
U.S. Hedge Fund Davidson Kempner Said to Build Up Stake in F&N
Bloomberg – Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC, a $19 billion U.S. hedge fund manager, has been building up a stake in Fraser & Neave Ltd. (FNN), the Singapore property and soft drinks company at the center of rival takeover bids, said a person with […]
Asking Hedge Funds to Turn Themselves In
Dealbook – Hedge funds had long operated under the regulatory radar, with few reporting obligations and a well-deserved reputation for secrecy. Now, the government is weighing whether to require them to report any suspicious transactions, like insider information or manipulation […]
Hedge Funds Raise Brent Crude Net-Longs to Nine-Month High
(Business Week) Hedge funds and other money managers raised bullish bets on Brent crude to the highest level in nine months, according to data from ICE Futures Europe. Speculative bets that prices will rise, in futures and options combined, outnumbered […]
Hedge Funds Are Buying Arena Pharmaceuticals, Should You?
(Seeking Alpha) The biotechnology industry can be a difficult space to consistently pick winners. With so many companies claiming to have found the next best medical treatment, investors must look closely at the science and the underlying fundamentals of the […]
Hedge funds to see brighter opportunities in 2013
(Pension and Investments) The new year is expected to be one of changes that will provide hedge fund managers with opportunity for better performance and new inflows from fresh sources. But lower revenues might result as institutional investors successfully push […]
Crispin Odey Bets on Banks as Hedge Fund Yields 24%
(Bloomberg) Crispin Odey is fumbling around a storage room in a Georgian town house in London’s Mayfair district, home to Odey Asset Management LLP, his $7 billion hedge-fund firm. Clattering through old computers, boxes of books and forgotten oil paintings […]
Weavering Founder Appears in Court Over Hedge Funds Collapse
(Bloomberg) Weavering Capital (UK) Ltd. founding director Magnus Peterson appeared in a London court today facing six charges of fraud, forgery, fraudulent trading and false accounting over the collapse of the hedge fund in 2009. Judge Michael Snow ordered Peterson, […]
Hedge Funds Feel the Squeeze as Shorts Beat S&P 500
(Business Week) Speculators are abandoning money- losing bets that stocks with the closest links to the U.S. economy will fall as America’s most-hated shares stage the best rally in a year relative to the broader market. The 20 stocks with […]