Category Archives: HedgeCoVest News
How Liquid are Liquid Alternatives?
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Liquid alternative mutual funds have seen explosive growth over the last five years and with good reason. The idea behind liquid alts is to offer the benefits of hedge fund strategies while eliminating some of the […]
Model Spotlight: HedgeCoVest Industrial Short-Only
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The last two months have been somewhat tough for the overall market. With May 27 as a starting date and continuing through July 27, the S&P 500 has only been in positive territory for four days. […]
Fund Manager Models Turn in a Strong Week
New York (HedgeCoVest.com) – The overall market bounced back last week after a rough week the week before. The S&P gained 1.16% last week while the DOW and NASDAQ lagged the performance of the broader market index with gains of 0.69% […]
Long/Short Models Doing Exactly What They Should Do
New York (HedgeCoVest.com) – The last three months have been anything but stellar for the overall stock market. If we look at a chart of the S&P 500 from April 28 through July 28, we see a number of peaks […]
Latest Moves By Chinese Authorities
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As the Chinese stock market has continued to experience volatile trade, China’s securities watchdog continues to consider actions to stabilize stocks. The latest practice that is under the microscope is automated trading. Actions have already included […]
Industry Survey Suggests Blended Portfolios On The Rise
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Citigroup recently released its sixth annual Industry Evolution Survey and the results showed that investment managers are working on portfolios that make use of new products and attempt to build dynamic portfolios that blend different asset […]
Managers More Bullish On Oil & Gas Stocks
New York (HedgeCo.Net) With the market falling for five straight days from last Tuesday through this past Monday and then rallying for a couple of days, we saw several developments when we analyzed the composite models. By analyzing the composite […]
Greece’s Issues Could Become More Than a Debt Crisis
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While hedge funds and institutional investors alike are mainly concerned with the sovereign debt and stock market in Greece, there could be a bigger concern in the long run and that is the geopolitical environment. During […]
Fortress Joins Growing List
New York (HedgeCo.net) – This has not been a good month for alternative asset managers, at least not in terms of their own earnings performance. On Thursday, Fortress Investment Group joined a growing list of alternative investment firms that have […]
Fund of Funds Outperform Hedge Funds in Past Year
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest report from eVestment showed that over the past year, funds of hedge funds have performed better than hedge funds themselves. The semi-annual report for July reported that the average fund of funds gained 6.65% […]
Blackstone Pushing for Liquid Alt Offerings in 401(k)’s
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The liquid alternative industry has experienced tremendous growth over the last seven years, with assets under management going from $100 billion to $440 billion during this time period. As impressive as the growth has been, the alternative […]
Individual Investors Are Not Trusting The Market
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The American Association of Individual Investors started their weekly sentiment survey in June of 1987. This past week’s results caused a record to be broken, but what that record means is uncertain. For the sixteenth straight week […]