Hedge Fund Firm Charged for Asset Mismarking and Insider Trading
(Hedgeco.Net)The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the hedge fund advisory firm Visium Asset Management LP has agreed to settle charges related to asset mismarking and insider trading...
View ArticleThe April U.S. Jobs Report: Will It Impact The Fedâs Rate-Hike Plan?
(Harvest) On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Rob Cittadini, director, Americas institutional, discussed the U.S. employment report for April,...
View ArticleLack of Wall Street Back-Office Deters Mainstream Crypto Investments
(Reuters) Mundane back-office concerns are giving pause to potential investors in digital currency hedge funds who have otherwise warmed up to the volatile asset class.Traditional custodian banks such...
View ArticleHK Fund Oasis, Objecting to Japanâs Alps-Alpine Merger, Submits Proposals
(Reuters) Hong Kong-based hedge fund Oasis Management stepped up on Wednesday its fight against Alpine Electronics Incâs plans to sell itself to larger affiliate Alps Electric Co, submitting...
View ArticleVisium Will Pay $10 Million Over Former Tradersâ Misconduct
(Bloomberg) Embattled hedge fund Visium Asset Management will pay more than $10 million to settle a U.S. regulatorâs allegations that it illegally profited from former tradersâ misconduct, likely...
View ArticleBridgewater Hedge Fund Beats Peers, Cuts Europe Shorts
(Bloomberg) Bridgewater Associates, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire Ray Dalio, is outperforming peers this year even after losing money in April, according to a person with knowledge of the...
View ArticleHedge Funds are Beating The Market for The First Time in 10 Years
(CNBC) Thanks to higher volatility, the rally in energy prices and some well-placed bets in fixed income, managers in the $3.2 trillion hedge fund industry posted a 0.38 percent gain in April that...
View ArticleCrypto Hedge Fund Pantera Says Returns Outpaced Bitcoin in April
(Bloomberg) One of my biggest criticisms of the hedge-fund industry has been the mismatch between fund performance and management fees. read more...
View ArticleTop Firm Denies Larger Lay-Off Speculation
(HITC Business) Reuters reports that Deutsche Bank does not plan to cut its U.S. workforce by about 20%, denying a media report. The bank was expected to cut about 1,000 jobs, or 10% of its staff in...
View ArticleTurnaround in Active Performance
(Harvest) The performance of actively managed funds relative to passively managed funds has been shown to be cyclical, with recent signs indicating conditions may be ripe for the cycle to favor active...
View ArticleThe Upside of Munisâ Down Market
(Harvest) Bond supply is plummeting, but so is demand. And rates are rising. Where are the silver linings? After its worst first-quarter in 22 years, the municipal bond market extended its losses in...
View ArticleMeToo Risks Among Fund Managers Are Being Ignored by Investors
(Bloomberg) Investors are failing to ask fund managers about sexual misconduct claims and discovering such evidence wouldnât necessarily deter them from committing capital to firms, an industry group...
View ArticleA Hedge-Fund Fee Plan That Only Charges for Alpha
(Bloomberg) One of my biggest criticisms of the hedge-fund industry has been the mismatch between fund performance and management fees. A traditional fee structure of â2 and 20â (a 2 percent...
View ArticleBridgewater Hedge Fund Beats Peers, Cuts Europe Shorts
(Bloomberg) Bridgewater Associates, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire Ray Dalio, is outperforming peers this year even after losing money in April, according to a person with knowledge of the...
View ArticleHedge Fund Riding Dollar Rally Focuses on CPI Before Data Desert
(Bloomberg) After a three-week rally that erased the dollarâs 2018 losses, greenback bulls face a test Thursday in the latest read on U.S. inflation. Millennium Global Investments doesnât expect...
View ArticleTiger Global Reaped $3 Billion From Flipkart Investment
(Bloomberg) Tiger Global Management is purring all the way to the bank after Walmart Inc.âs Flipkart deal. The firm has made about $3 billion after investing $1 billion in Flipkart Group, according...
View ArticleHedge Fund Adviser Charged With Deceiving Investors by Inflating Fund...
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has charged New York-based investment adviser Premium Point Investments LP with inflating the value of private funds it...
View ArticleHedge fund Third Point seeks to launch âblank-checkâ company...
(Bloomberg) Exclusive: Hedge fund Third Point seeks to launch ‘blank-check’ company. The new investment vehicle, referred to on Wall Street as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), would be the...
View ArticleMore than half of institutional investors plan to outsource data management...
(Hedgeweek) New research by State Street Corporation reveals that more than half (60 per cent) of institutional investors surveyed plan to partly or fully outsource their data management over the next...
View ArticleBridgewater Hedge Fund Beats Peers, Cuts Europe Shorts
(Bloomberg) Bridgewater Associates, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire Ray Dalio, is outperforming peers this year even after losing money in April, according to a person with knowledge of the...
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