Category Archives: HedgeCoVest News
Active vs. Passive vs. Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – As the prominence of low-cost mutual funds and ETFs has grown over the last 30 to 40 years, so has the debate over whether passive management is better than active management heated up. Study after study […]
Hedge Funds Out Perform Market in April
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – After taking flack from investors as well as the press for a lackluster performance in 2014, the hedge fund industry seems intent on reversing that in 2015. So far in 2015, hedge funds are turning the […]
A Number Of Streaks In Oil Trading And Production
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The oil market has been on a wild ride over the past year. After prices for West Texas Intermediate Crude peaked at $107.68 last June, the price per barrel fell to as low as $42.41 in […]
David Einhorn’s Bearish Case Against Shale Oil Companies
New York (HedgeCo.NET) At last week’s Sohn Investment Conference, Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn made headlines when he expressed a very bearish opinion toward fracking or shale oil companies. Einhorn argued that the costs of capturing the oil far exceed the […]
Obama Administration Warns Hedge Fund Industry
New York (HedgeCo.NET) Most of the time when you hear that the Obama administration has warned the hedge fund industry about a topic, you automatically think it is in regards to legislation about practices. That wasn’t the case at last […]
Manager Profile and Insights: Robert Moore, CMJ Value Holdings
New York, HedgeCo.Net – CMJ Value Holdings was founded in Chicago in 2001 and has over $40 million in assets under management at this time. The company uses an equity long/short approach with slight bias toward the long side. Robert […]
Mixed Week for Models as Market Declines
New York, HedgeCo.Net – Last week was a choppy week for the market as we had a couple of big economic events on the calendar. The advanced report of first quarter GDP numbers came out on Wednesday morning and they […]
Market Goes Through Three Cycles in Four Months
New York, HedgeCo.Net – Through the first four months of the year, the performance of the models on the HedgeCoVest platform and that of the S&P 500 break down in to three very distinct periods. In January, stocks were very […]
Two Different Hedge Funds Announce Stakes in YUM Brands
New York (HedgeCo.Net) Over the course of the last week, two different hedge fund/activist investors announced stakes in fast-food giant YUM Brands (NYSE: YUM). On Friday, it was announced that Third Point has bought in to YUM during the first […]
Liquid Alternatives Outperform Hedge Funds in 2014
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – In what seems to be a case of “beating them at their own game”, the average alternative mutual fund returned 4.36% in 2014 while the average hedge fund returned 3.78% over the course of last year according […]
HedgeCoVest Models Continue To Outperform the Overall Market
New York (HedgeCo.net) – At this point in time, HedgeCoVest has 26 different models for investors to choose from on the platform. There are 12 single strategy models which are replicating a single hedge fund manager and there are 14 […]
Move over CalPERS, here comes CalSTRS!
New York (HedgeCo.net) – When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced earlier this year that they were leaving the hedge fund space, it was major news in the financial world. While CalPERS stated that the move had little to do […]