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...
Budweiser | A Dream Delivered | Folds of Honor
This summer, we've been honoring those who protect our freedom to dream. So we delivered a life-changing scholarship to a family who has sacrificed for their country and for each other with the help ...
Happy 150th Birthday Canada
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Gulati's Hedge Fund Pummeled As Equity Markets Evade Volatility
It’s been a long and painful year for hedge fund manager Deepak Gulati, who finds himself on the wrong side of one of the most profitable trades in town. His Argentiere Fund lost money for 14 straight months through April by betting on rising market volatility, erasing all the gains since it started in 2013. The assets it oversees have almost halved. By comparison, an exchange-traded fund that rises when Wall Street’s volatility index falls almost quadrupled during the 14-month period. Instead of backing down, the former head of global equity proprietary trading at JPMorgan Chase & Co. -- who oversees about...
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.
Global Equity Listings Start To Bounce Back After 2016 Slump
Global equity listings rose in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, driven by issuance in Asia and the United States, Thomson Reuters data showed, pointing to a more buoyant year for share sales than 2016. Companies globally issued $189 billion of equity in the first quarter of the...
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>