Category Archives: HedgeCoVest News
More Bad News For Carlyle Group
New York (HedgeCo.net) – One day after having a noted financial consultant advise clients to leave one of their hedge funds, Carlyle Group LP reported on Wednesday that their earnings dropped 38% on a year over year basis. Much of […]
Highlights From The Credit Suisse Mid-Year Survey
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Credit Suisse released its mid-year hedge fund survey yesterday and there were some very revealing highlights about the industry. The survey polled over 200 institutional investors from around the globe with just over half being in […]
Here’s What Hedge Funds Are Saying About The Second Half Of 2015
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As the second quarter has started and with many U.S. indices sitting at or near all-time highs, we asked the hedge fund managers that manage the models on theHedgeCoVest platform for their thoughts on where we […]
Bucking The Trend: Wells Fargo Launches Commodities Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Most of the recent headlines regarding commodity based hedge funds have been about poor performance or funds closing down, but Wells Fargo & Co.’s wealth management division is launching a new fund in the midst of […]
Model Spotlight: Ashbury Behavioral Long/Short Model
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Ashbury Behavioral Long/Short Model is designed to exploit long-term behavioral biases in forecasting, fundamental valuation, and trend following. It targets areas where people’s behavioral biases are pervasive and impossible to overcome, using two sub-strategies that […]
Financial Consultant Urges Investors To Dump Carlyle Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Carlyle Group is one of the largest alternative investment firms in the world, but the Washington D.C. based firm may not be as big if investors listen to a noted financial consultant. Cliffwater LLC is […]
Hedge Funds Investing In Iran?
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While Iran may have come to an agreement with the United States and the United Nations regarding its nuclear operations, is the world ready to invest in Iran? What about U.S. citizens? One hedge fund manager […]
Slide in Commodities Causes Fund To Close
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Over the course of the last year, most commodities have seen significant declines in their prices. Oil is down over 50%, platinum is down over 30%, silver is down over 25% and gold is down over […]
Chinese Plunge Protection Team Working Overtime
New York (HedgeCo.net) – After the drubbing the Chinese market took on Monday, regulators enacted measures to halt the slide. These measures included allowing 1,400 companies to halt trading and providing the China Securities Finance Corp., a state-run financing vehicle […]
Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Down Slightly in Q2
New York (HedgeCo.net) The second quarter was a tough one for investors as the overall market dropped sharply in the last week of the quarter to take the Dow and the S&P into negative territory for the quarter and erased […]
Technology Continues Strong Growth
New York (HedgeCo.net) Over the last 30 trading days, the overall stock market has seen its share of volatility with the S&P 500 gaining just under 2% from June 15 through June 23 and then losing over 3.5% from June […]
Markets And Hedge Funds Bounce Back in First Half Of July
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The first half of July has been much better for hedge funds and world stock indices alike than was June. June saw most of the world’s major indices decline, but most of them have bounced back […]