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invest.com launches “hedge fund for the people”
May 23rd, 2016
invest.com is the first online investment company in the UK to specialise in alternative investments; It has received $20m investment from a number of global investors including tech VC fund, Singulariteam; invest.com domain name ranks as one of the ...
Hedge Fund Tax Guru, Diya Wilson, moves from Deloitte to PwC
May 18th, 2016
PwC has recruited Diya Wilson as a tax partner in its Asset & Wealth Management practice. Ms Wilson joins from Deloitte, where she was was responsible for leading the Firm’s hedge fund tax business in London. She initially joined ...
Hedge funds show best returns from Russian markets
May 16th, 2016
Russian assets have brought hedge fund managers 29 percent gains since the start of 2015, their highest revenues among emerging markets. The figure is eight times higher than the return on investments in China and 16 times greater than ...
BlackRock hedge fund sees worst start
February 16th, 2016
Bloomberg News reports that the flagship $1.9bn Obsidian fund fell 4% in January after failing to anticipate “the extent to which markets would trade in lockstep with commodities,” according to an investor update, a copy of which was obtained by ...
Hedge fund manager barred from managing client money until 2018
January 11th, 2016
Steven A. Cohen Barred From Supervisory Hedge Fund Role SEC Examinations and Independent Consultant Reviews Also Part of Settlement The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen will be prohibited from supervising funds that manage ...
Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters
January 4th, 2016
Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters How do you make money in a world where history is meaningless? The answer, for a growing number of big fund managers, is ...
Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows
December 3rd, 2015
Some of the money managers who made names (and billions of dollars) for themselves in the past decade are suddenly failing: ” Hedge Funds Brace for Redemptions (Bloomberg) – When BlueCrest Capital Management told investors Tuesday ...
Hedge funds confront impact of financial market regulations and challenges of evolving prime broker relationships
November 10th, 2015
29% of funds surveyed have experienced prime broker price increases in past year, while 22% anticipate future increases Hedge fund managers seek new asset growth strategies Investments in technology imperative as managers seek transformational change Hedge fund managers are ...
Intel sued for investing employee 401(k) funds in hedge funds, private equity
November 2nd, 2015
Lawsuit alleges 401(k) and profit-sharing participants invested in tech firm’s custom target-date series and global diversified fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars A former Intel Corp. employee is suing officials at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company for allegedly ...
Hedge Fund Borrows $10M in Stock Via the Bitcoin Blockchain
October 15th, 2015
Yesterday morning, New York time, a company called Clique Fund used the bitcoin blockchain to borrow $10 million in stock. Bitcoin is the world’s most popular digital currency, and the blockchain is the vast online ledger that underpins bitcoin, tabulating ...
