Billionaire Dan Loeb Is Betting Big On The World's Largest Asset Manager
"Index and ETFs still only represent 10% of the entire equity market global capitalization," Fink said July 17 on his firm's second quarterly call. "With $160-odd trillion global equity market capita...
Happy 150th Birthday Canada
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The Market is Set to Crash - The Timing
The FOMC is engaged in an aggressive monetary policy tightening regime, they are raising interest rates aggressively, and now they're going to reduce their balance sheet, which is another way of saying that they are going to take additional steps to tighten monetary policy.
HFRX Interim Update: Hedge Funds Up Through Mid-March
Hedge funds have stayed in the plus column through mid-March as global financial markets absorbed a U.S. interest rate hike, saw further gains in global equity markets and dealt with a sharp decline in oil, according to a flash update from Hedge Fund Research.
Goldman Sachs ECM Chairman John Daly To Retire After 28 Years
<p>Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chairman of global equity capital markets, John Daly, is retiring from his role after 28 years at the firm.</p> <p>Daly will become an advisory director, maintaining relationships with long-term clients and providing guidance to the firm’s ECM bankers, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday and confirmed by a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman.</p>
Ex-Carleton College CIO Joins Minnesota Foundation
Jason Matz will oversee the $448 million foundation as well as four independent funds making up Arbor Philanthropy....
Hedge Funds Weekly: January 9, 2017
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.1em; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Highlights</h4> <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Our factor-based projections estimate that hedge funds added 0.55% last week as global equity gains fueled performance</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Hedge funds are now up 0.55% for the month and year</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">All but one of the 30 hedge fund strategies we track earned positive returns</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Aside from high quality foreign bonds, most asset groups worldwide notched gains</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Equities rose in every major region and sector</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Most fixed income securities gained globally</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Energy commodities dipped, pulling down our broad index despite gains in every other commodity sector</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Neither developed nor emerging market currencies moved significantly relative to the dollar</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">All of our short volatility and variance factors rose</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Outside of commodities, trend following and momentum strategies tended to profit</li> </ul>
Columbia Threadneedle’s Stephen Thornber Passes Away
Stephen Thornber, manager of the Threadneedle Global Equity Income fund, has passed away. Thornber joined Columbia Threadneedle at the company’s inception in 1994 and ran the £1.9bn Global Equity Income strategy since its launch in 2007 as well as heading up the energy sector research team.
The Biggest Hedge Fund Paydays Of 2016, From Charter Communications To Natural Gas
Hedge fund investors have a lot to celebrate as 2016 draws to a close and they sharpen their pencils on new investment ideas and macroeconomic themes for the coming year....
Linear Talk: Macromoney - The equities oriented Hedge Fund
Simone Dalle Nogare - Director at Macromoney Global Investments, joins Colin Lloyd, Author of Macro Investment Letter Service 'In the Long run', in the Tip TV - Linear Talk Hedge Show, and details why they run a Hedge Fund which bets only on equities, and how their macroeconomic model helps them identify the best bet in equities in this era of uncertainty. Nogare also offers inputs on their team, and their strategy for investing using derivatives.