Hedge funds are getting killed, says hedge fund manager Dan Loeb.
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Go deeper: Hedge funds see 6th consecutive quarter of outflows Hedge funds continue to underperform Hedge funds see all-time high assets despite ongoing outflows
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The average hedge fund returned 4.14 percent this year through September, according to the Hedge Fund Research Composite Index, the broadest gauge of hedge fund performance.
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Hedge funds, especially activist hedge funds, are established users of private-investigation services.
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Hedge funds suffered their worst October in seven years, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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"He'll get big checks from hedge fund managers," says a former hedge fund executive.
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But some of the biggest names in hedge funds remain unconvinced, from Ray Dalio, founder of the world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater, to legendary hedge fund manager Julian Robertson.
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For hedge funds, the numbers are similar: Only 15% of hedge fund CEOs are women.
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In aggregate, hedge funds have returned 0.14 percent this year, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Global hedge fund research firm Preqin only tracks 117 "pure hedge funds" based in China.
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WE HAVE EXPOSURE TO HEDGE FUNDS, AND, OF COURSE, THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR HEDGE FUNDS.
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Ackman's hedge funds have gained roughly 15 percent so far this year, beating the average hedge fund, which lost roughly half a percent, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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A fiscal control board designed to create a new government "of the hedge funds, by the hedge funds, and for the hedge funds," is an affront to basic democratic principles.
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She has been named to the Hedge Fund Journal/Ernst & Young's "50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds" and also was named as "2016 Hedge Fund Rising Star" by Institutional Investor.
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Toro PowerPlex Hedge Trimmer ($2993) Manual or gas-powered hedge trimmers are a pain to use.
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You know, you have the hedge, you lose on hedge, you lose on the other side.
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The activist investor and billionaire hedge hedge fund manager also owns shares of the two companies.
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This hedge fund creates a new dynamic — their debt products must satisfy hedge fund investor demands.
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The average hedge fund has lost 3.13 percent this year, data from Hedge Fund Research show.
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The average hedge fund, according to Hedge Fund Research, is up 7.8% in 2019 through August.
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Meanwhile, the average hedge fund fell 2015% last year, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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With growing concerns about hedge fund returns and structure, interest in hedge fund conversions has spiked.
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So recently we selected some external manager hedge funds to increase our exposure to hedge funds.
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" And hedge funder Cliff Asness complained in 2009 that "hedge funds really need a community organizer.
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The average hedge fund lost roughly 1 percent during that time, Hedge Fund Research data shows.
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Equity hedge funds with a short-selling bias have been the worst-performing hedge funds this year, down 24.4 percent January-October, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge funds trading currencies have made 1 percent each year since 2013 - just a quarter of the average of overall hedge fund returns of 4.15 percent, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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What's happened to the hedge funds is that instead of competing with bank managers and trust funds, that sort of thing, hedge funds are having to compete with more hedge funds.
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"Hedge fund capital posted sharp gains to begin 2019 as investor risk tolerance increased," said Kenneth Heinz, president of Hedge Fund Research, a Chicago-based provider of hedge fund data and analysis.
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At the same time, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research shows the average hedge fund returned 8.64 percent in 2017 but commodity hedge funds eked out returns of just 0.43 percent.
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The average hedge fund lost 2 percent in the year through November, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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So you're saying if you take money to [a] hedge fund, you're completely beholden to hedge funds?
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The average global hedge fund has lost 1.03 percent since January, data from Hedge Fund Research show.
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Hedge fund of funds invest in a portfolio of other hedge funds rather than directly into assets.
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But for many other oil producers to hedge or not to hedge is a daunting tactical choice.
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Data from Hedge Fund Research show the average hedge fund lost 2.21 percent so far this month.
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Hedge funds are still smarting from $70 billion in redemptions in 2016, Hedge Fund Research data show.
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A macro hedge fund index compiled by Hedge Fund Research is down nearly 1 percent since Jan.
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The source said funds leading the raise would include European hedge fund Tyrus Capital, Canadian hedge fund West Face and U.S. hedge fund Livermore Partners, some of the biggest shareholders in Mitra Energy.
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The top 10 hedge fund managers added over 1.4 billion pounds to their personal fortunes, the list showed, despite hedge funds losing 1.12 percent on average in 2015, Hedge Fund Research data showed.
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Hedge funds: Female-owned firms represent 2.23% of all firms and manage 1.5% of total hedge fund AUM.
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Credit hedge funds are up 4.39 percent so far this year, according to industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedging currency risk effectively reduces this natural hedge, and thus, volatility rises as the currency hedge percentage increases.
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In the area of finance, that's what hedge funds do: They hedge their bets under uncertain economic conditions.
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Last year, the average activist hedge fund lost an average 11 percent, according to Hedge Fund Research data.
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The average hedge fund, as measured by Hedge Fund Research's broadest index, is up 5.7 percent this year.
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The average macro hedge fund is down 0.8 percent in the first six months of 2017, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research showed, compared with returns of 3.68 percent for the average hedge fund.
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The average hedge fund has fallen roughly half a percent this year, preliminary numbers from Hedge Fund Research show.
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The average activist hedge fund's returns are roughly flat through the end of September, Hedge Fund Research data show.
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It doesn't mean that hedge funds are over, but families are challenged by the fee structures of hedge funds.
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Since 2017/18, it had been reducing foreign bonds without a currency hedge while increasing those with a hedge.
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He predicted it can't last because gold is an inflation hedge and bonds are a hedge against falling prices.
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"All of the trend followers (computer driven hedge funds) will benefit," said a fund of a hedge fund investor.
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The average hedge fund, according to Hedge Fund Research, is up 7.8% through the first eight months of year.
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By comparison, the average credit hedge fund lost 1 percent last year, data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR) showed.
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Hedge funds continued their positive performance in 2019 with the Eurekahedge European Hedge Fund Index gaining 0.77% in June.
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Momentum mutual funds do outperform contrarian mutual funds, while contrarian hedge funds outperform all groups including momentum hedge funds.
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Yan has coined the term "hedge city" for places like Vancouver: they are a hedge against volatility at home.
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More than half of the world's hedge funds employed an equity or event-driven hedge fund strategy, HFR said.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds take profits after oil rally, Reuters, May 15 - Hedge funds hold fire as oil prices hit multi-year highs, Reuters, May 8 - Hedge funds trim positions in crude but boost fuels, Reuters, April 30 - Hedge funds build record bullish position in Brent, Reuters, April 16 Editing by David Goodman
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Related columns: - Hedge funds trapped in near-term Brent futures, Reuters, May 22 - Hedge funds exit crude but stay bullish on fuels, Reuters, May 21 - Hedge funds take profits after oil rally, Reuters, May 15 - Hedge funds hold fire as oil prices hit multi-year highs, Reuters, May 8 (Editing by Dale Hudson)
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Related columns: - Hedge funds take profits after oil rally, Reuters, May 15 -Hedge funds hold fire as oil prices hit multi-year highs, Reuters, May 8 - Hedge funds trim positions in crude but boost fuels, Reuters, April 30 - Hedge funds build record bullish position in Brent, Reuters, April 16 (Editing by Edmund Blair)
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After a year where the average hedge fund lost money, 2019 has been kinder to hedge fund managers, with the average fund posting a 7.6% return through the end of June, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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In the first five months of 2018, the average hedge fund returned 1.5 percent, data from Hedge Fund Research shows.
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Macro hedge funds were buying bitcoin as a hedge to Brexit, which is looking less likely in the near future.
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Hedge fund portfolio managers and analysts"I'm right and I'm all over the details"…D&C personalities dominate hedge funds.
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As a result, hedge fund liquidations hit a seven-year high of 979 in 2015, Hedge Fund Research data showed.
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Big institutional investors are also diverting more money to the hedge fund firms that use computer-driven hedge fund strategies.
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About 35 percent of MW's funds are allocated to hedge funds, including a large one to U.S.-based hedge funds.
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The offense is studded with shooters and big men, and they play a relentless defense, hedge rows within hedge rows.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds target WTI, leaving other oil contracts becalmed (Reuters, July 10) - Hedge funds continue selling oil, especially fuels (Reuters, July 2) - Hedge funds continue gently selling oil while waiting for OPEC and tariffs (Reuters, June 18) - Oil prices stall as hedge funds take profits (Reuters, June 12) (Editing by Dale Hudson)
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Related columns: - Hedge funds continue selling oil, especially fuels, Reuters, July 2 - Hedge funds on hold in run up to OPEC meeting, Reuters, June 25 - Hedge funds continue gently selling oil while waiting for OPEC and tariffs, Reuters, June 18 - Oil prices stall as hedge funds take profits, Reuters, June 12 (Editing by Edmund Blair)
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Yet it's not at all difficult to recount episodes where specific hedge funds lost billions, and hedge-fund closings are routine.
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Overall, hedge funds are up by an average of 0.4 percent for the year to date, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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"Typically people first think of gold as an inflation hedge but over history it's really been an instability hedge," he said.
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That's why FSOC decided to look at hedge funds, and its initial findings suggest a big possible problem in hedge land.
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Even the broader hedge fund industry underperformed the broader stock market, and only a few hedge fund managers delivered superior returns.
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The researchers also found that hedge-fund investors — specifically, hedge fund-of-funds — select managers based on their own testosterone levels.
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As long as performance continues to lag, hedge funds will be scrutinized and hedge fund giants will be at a disadvantage.
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Another successful approach was to do what hedge funds were originally set up to do: hedge (not many do these days).
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Hedge Clippers is backed by the American Federation of Teachers and targets the influence of hedge funds and private equity funds.
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Through the third quarter of this year, investors had withdrawn about $51.5 billion from hedge funds, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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"Remember that equities are an inflation hedge and bonds are a deflation hedge until inflation rises above 3 percent," Garthwaite said.
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In all, 210,214 hedge funds closed or were liquidated in 2016, compared with 729 openings, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc.
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The average hedge fund last month was flat as concerns around coronavirus' economic impact took hold, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds sell oil as economic fears intensify (Reuters, June 11) - Hedge funds accelerate oil sales as economy worsens (Reuters, June 3) - Oil prices stumble as hedge funds become overextended (Reuters, April 29) (Editing by Dale Hudson)
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Related columns: - Oil prices correct lower on hedge fund sales (Reuters, May 7) - Oil prices stumble as hedge funds become overextended (Reuters, April 29) - Hedge funds oil positions start to look stretched (Reuters, April 15) (Editing by Edmund Blair)
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Related columns: - Oil prices correct lower on hedge fund sales (Reuters, May 7) - Oil prices stumble as hedge funds become overextended (Reuters, April 29) - Hedge funds' oil positions start to look stretched (Reuters, April 15) Editing by Edmund Blair
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Investors have put $7.9 billion into quantitative hedge funds this year, and the universe of hedge funds devoted to these strategies has more than doubled, to $203 billion from $408 billion seven years ago, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Plan benefits some hedge fund managers: The plan will lower taxes on some hedge fund managers, which departs from his campaign pledge.
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Last year was especially bad, with the average stock-oriented hedge fund falling 7 percent, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge funds apparently purchased shares in SunEdison, once the darling of the hedge fund world, betting they might have hit a bottom.
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Research firm Hedge Fund Research's (HFR) Hedge Fund Weighted Composite Index inched up 0.5 percent in February after having dropped 2.46 percent.
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Hedge funds also have struggled, with an average return of just 0.04 percent last year, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index.
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Banks and hedge funds use the swaps for currency bets, while U.S. companies use them to hedge their non-dollar denominated bonds.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn sued Perry's hedge fund in 2004, accusing the hedge fund of manipulating share prices during Icahn's takeover battles.
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Banks and hedge funds use these swaps for currency bets, while U.S. companies use them to hedge their non-dollar denominated bonds.
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Trump's stable of funds include two Angelo, Gordon & Co hedge funds, three Paulson & Co hedge funds, and 11 Baron Capital mutual funds.
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Not surprisingly, the decline in hedge fund managers among the richest Americans parallels a drop in the number of hedge funds operating.
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HEDGE FUNDS BACK IN THE GAME | Markets have been roiled and hedge funds have just come off their worst year since the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, but some big-name hedge fund managers are still hauling in money,
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Related columns: - Iran sanctions decision rewards hedge fund oil bulls (Reuters, April 23) - Hedge funds bet big on spike in U.S. gasoline prices (Reuters, April 24) - Hedge funds' oil positions start to look stretched (Reuters, April 15) (Editing by Susan Fenton)
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The information is based on a net hedge fund adds figure calculated by Symmetric by taking the number of hedge funds that opened a new position plus those that increased the position minus the hedge funds that trimmed the holding.
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Related columns: - Iran sanctions decision rewards hedge fund oil bulls (Reuters, April 23) - Hedge funds bet big on spike in U.S. gasoline prices (Reuters, April 24) - Hedge funds oil positions start to look stretched (Reuters, April 15) (Editing by Susan Fenton)
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On the date of conversion, the new mutual fund takes possession of the securities of the hedge fund and the holders of the hedge fund will be given shares of the mutual fund based on their value in the hedge fund.
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Its ability to settle with some of the holdout hedge funds could put pressure on the remaining hedge funds to resolve the dispute.
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After the hedge funds threatened a proxy battle, Williams caved, agreeing to add the two hedge fund executives to its board in 2014.
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Research firm Hedge Fund Research (HFR), in a monthly report released on Friday, counted a total of 20123,007 hedge funds worldwide in July.
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Data from Hedge Fund Research shows that hedge fund launches last year stood at their lowest since 2000 with only 561 newcomers recorded.
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Ray Dalio, founder of the biggest hedge fund in the world, was the highest-paid hedge fund manager in the world last year.
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Those gains helped power the average hedge fund in January to the largest monthly gain since September 0003, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Those gains helped power the average hedge fund in January by the largest monthly gain since September 0003, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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The funds: Cryptocurrency hedge funds are cropping up quickly—there are already dozens of them, according to a recent Hedge Fund Alert report.
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Last year dedicated short-sellers lost an average 10 percent as other hedge funds gained 6.6 percent, according to Hedge Fund Research data.
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I WOULD HAVE SAID THREE YEARS AGO, THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH MONEY PLOWING INTO HEDGE FUNDS, AND NOT ALL HEDGE FUNDS ARE GREAT.
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Credit hedge funds have made average gains of 4.14 percent over the past five years, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research shows.
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Hedge-fund tracker ETFs are different than so-called liquid alternatives funds, which try to replicate broader trading strategies used by hedge funds.
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Other hedge funds that have faced criminal charges, like Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital, have been forced to wind down their hedge funds.
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Mr. Perry, one of many original hedge fund managers to begin his career at Goldman Sachs, founded his hedge fund with Paul Leff.
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Last year, the average hedge fund lost money, and the market has outpaced the average fund in 2019, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Harmony Hedge Fund has started trading on the MCX platform and another 35 hedge funds have approached the exchange for admission, Paranjape said.
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Funds-of-funds are essentially hedge funds that try to manage risk by diversifying their investments in a number of other hedge funds.
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Still, the average hedge fund has lost 5.5% for the year through the first two weeks of March, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, CEO of the family-office hedge fund Point113 Asset Management, is getting closer to managing outside money again.
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Some of the biggest names in the hedge fund world have been taking more bearish positions, including Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund.
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But even as hedge funds lament some deep losses, they note that in many instances hedge funds performed relatively better than other investments.
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The timing of Mr. Cohen's hedge fund reboot is inauspicious; many longtime managers have closed their hedge funds to run family offices instead.
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Hedge funds made gains of 2.1 percent for the pension scheme in the 12 months to the end of March compared with the average hedge fund, which made 5.9 percent for the same period, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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"There's 15,000 hedge funds out there and I think 90 percent of those hedge funds aren't worth the fees that people pay," said Donald Steinbrugge, chief executive and founder of Agecroft Partners, a consulting and marketing firm that focuses on hedge funds.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds continue gently selling oil while waiting for OPEC and tariffs, Reuters, June 18 - Oil prices stall as hedge funds take profits, Reuters, June 12 - Oil prices tumble as hedge funds quit crude, Reuters, May 29 (editing by David Evans)
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Baupost, the Boston-based hedge fund firm, managed $29.2 billion as of mid-2016, according to the Hedge Fund Intelligence Billion Dollar Club ranking.
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Related columns: "Hedge funds recover nerve after sell off", Reuters, March 5 "Hedge funds continue to exit oil but OPEC stems rout", Reuters, Feb.
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However, after a year where many top hedge funds underperformed, the top hedge funds' tight grip on the big bucks became a little looser.
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Institutional borrowers such as hedge funds and other financial firms have used crypto assets to short digital currencies, hedge investments or finance business operations.
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Gabriel Plotkin, a former manager at SAC, and his hedge fund Melvin Capital, was a top performer in the hedge fund industry in 2015.
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Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio knows plenty about success: He founded Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund with roughly $160 billion in assets.
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The impact: "This is a pivotal moment for the hedge fund industry," Amy Bensted, Preqin's head of hedge fund products, said in a release.
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The strategy of buying the most crowded stocks owned by hedge funds beats the market, according to hedge-fund tracking firm Symmetric's latest report.
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Multi-strategy hedge fund GSIP launched in November 2008 with $7 billion in assets, one of the largest hedge fund launches at the time.
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Morgan Stanley is the second-largest hedge fund prime broker in the world with about 1,700 clients, according to hedge fund data firm Preqin.
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That lagged the 3 percent gain in the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, a performance benchmark for hedge funds published by Hedge Fund Research.
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The average credit-focused hedge fund, according to the benchmark Hedge Fund Intelligence Americas Credit Index, is up 5.88 percent this year through August.
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Another hedge fund, BlueMountain Capital Management, announced a slate of 13 directors including hedge fund manager Jeff Ubben and former California treasurer Phil Angelides.
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In December, when the average hedge fund lost money as markets plummeted, the Tail Hedge Master Fund gained nearly 20 percent, the person said.
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Last year, one of his staunchest backers, the hedge fund manager Bruce Berkowitz, bailed out, saying that Sears had "wrecked" his hedge fund's returns.
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Paulson losses Trump's stable of funds include two Angelo, Gordon & Co. hedge funds, three Paulson & Co. hedge funds, and 11 Baron Capital mutual funds.
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Last year, stock-focused hedge funds gained 13.7%, on average, while the S&P 500 stock index climbed 29%, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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The firm managed $5.9 billion in hedge fund assets as of mid-year 2016, according to the Hedge Fund Intelligence Billion Dollar Club ranking.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds on hold in run up to OPEC meeting, Reuters, June 25 - Hedge funds continue gently selling oil while waiting for OPEC and tariffs, Reuters, June 18 - Oil prices stall as hedge funds take profits, Reuters, June 12 (Editing by Louise Heavens)
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Indeed, Markopolos acknowledged in an interview with CNBC that his investigation was backed by a hedge fund that profited handsomely from the company's bet against GE, but declined to name the hedge fund, saying only that it was a mid-sized U.S. hedge fund.
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At the same time, some powerful hedge-fund industry figures, including Renaissance Technologies co-chief Robert Mercer, fund manager and activist Carl Icahn, Paulson & Co. hedge-fund founder John Paulson and Trian Partners hedge fund CEO Nelson Peltz, have contributed money to Trump's efforts.
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By the end of the fourth quarter, hedge funds had ramped up their bets on CVS Health as 108 out of 880 hedge funds held the drugstore chain, up from 64 fund last quarter, the largest increase in hedge fund popularity, according to Goldman Sachs.
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Over all, closings of hedge funds are on pace to eclipse hedge fund start-ups in 22012 for the second consecutive year, paving the way for the highest number of liquidations since the financial crisis in 22012, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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"Total hedge fund industry capital rose for the third consecutive quarter, surpassing the $20163 trillion milestone for the first time," Hedge Fund Research said Friday.
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Equity hedge funds fell about 2.1 percent on Friday alone, according to data from Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, which was cited in the story.
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The departure of Gilly follows that of Goldman's head of hedge fund consulting, William Douglas, who left this year to launch hedge fund Caius Capital.
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At one point in time, that drove some decisions, but the real justification for hedge funds [existing] going forward is the funds that actually hedge.
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That has helped assets in systematic hedge funds to grow to $270 billion as of June 30, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research showed.
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For the year, the average hedge fund lost 5.383 percent according to early data from Hedge Fund Research and the S&P lost 6.2 percent.
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I'D GET RID OF CARRIED INTEREST SO THE HEDGE FUND GUYS, IT'S AN ADVANTAGE TO THE HEDGE FUND GUYS AND ME AND OTHER PEOPLE FRANKLY.
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As a hedge fund manager-turned-Treasury secretary, he would have the power to set tax policies that determine how much hedge fund managers pay.
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"Hedge fund investors chase hedge fund names containing a special combination of words related to economics and geopolitics, or that convey power," the researchers wrote.
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Many hedge funds are still compiling their returns for last year, but early data from Hedge Fund Research show the average fund lost 6.7 percent.
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Balyasny's fund is up 10.22% through the end of July, besting the average hedge fund, which is up roughly 8%, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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The company's founders, ex-hedge funders who worked to build Bridgewater Associates into a multi-billion dollar hedge fund behemoth, ostensibly know what they're doing.
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BlackRock&aposs 23-year-old Obsidian hedge fund bested the average hedge fund, returning more than 13% in 2019 even after losing money in August.
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He founded his hedge fund firm SkyBridge Capital in 2005 and later launched a lavish annual hedge-fund confab in Las Vegas known as SALT.
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The firm recorded a record high of 2477.85 global hedge funds with such a strategy, up from 22017 global hedge funds as of Oct. 18.
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Strine looks at what he calls a "flesh and blood" perspective on how hedge funds, and specifically hedge-fund activists, are harmful to typical American investors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Assets at the largest hedge funds have dropped sharply, according to a new survey by industry data and news provider Hedge Fund Intelligence.
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The billionaire hedge-fund manager, known for his short-selling acumen, also discussed the U.S. election, the state of the hedge fund business and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
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"The industry has too many hedge funds," says Don Steinbrugge, managing partner of Agecroft Partners, a marketing and consulting firm for hedge funds in Richmond, Virginia.
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Shkreli is a 32-year-old former hedge fund manager — see, I just said "hedge fund manager" and already masses of readers are shuddering in unison.
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"He's the James Brown of hedge funds — the hardest working man in the industry," said former employee Doug Kass, founder of hedge fund Seabreeze Partners Management.
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CNBC PRO found the top stocks hedge funds owned for their market-beating performance using research from Goldman Sachs and Symmetric, a hedge fund tracking firm.
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Fred Ingham, head of international hedge funds at Neuberger Berman, which invests $5 billion in external hedge funds, said computers were increasingly taking over from people.
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The Symmetric Hedge Fund Exposure Index tracks the top 50 companies where hedge funds constitute a large percentage of the public traded shares of a stock.
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I think what's gonna happen is we'll see a market shake out, and hedge funds that don't hedge will not be as popular in the future.
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The options market in which many hedge fund players take cheap speculative positions and companies hedge against currency moves has also returned to something resembling normality.
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An AI Hedge Fund Created a New Currency to Make Wall Street Work Like Open SourceTraditionally, a hedge fund's trading methods are a closely guarded secret.
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The research firm recorded a record high of 226 global hedge funds with such a strategy, up from 110 global hedge funds as of Oct. 1003.
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The results of the study may have implications for hedge-fund performance as well as hedge-fund culture, which tends to prize aggression, competitiveness and drive.
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Last year activists lost 10.4% on average, far more than the hedge fund industry's average 5% drop, according to data from research firm Hedge Fund Research.
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The most-owned stocks comprise what RBC calls its "Hedge Fund Hot Dogs," or those stocks that have the most hedge fund dollars invested in them.
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His hedge fund, ESL Investments, has also proposed a restructuring, and he has offered to buy some of Sears' remaining key assets through his hedge fund.
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For the first time in years, hedge funds have been given the chance to prove that they do what they say they do — hedge the market.
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Of 2500 hedge funds tracked by Goldman Sachs, 97 had Facebook as a top 10 holding, according to the firm's May "Hedge Fund Trend Monitor" report.
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" He added, "Hedge fund guys are the ones buying quarter-of-a-billion-dollar apartments, buying sports teams, hedge fund guys are the ones buying art.
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Meanwhile, a slew of newer firms — including hedge funds and those affiliated with hedge funds — that specialize in lending to mass-tort lawyers are cropping up.
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Here are the 11 stocks hedge funds and mutual funds are betting on according to the Goldman "Hedge Fund VIP" and "Mutual Fund Overweight Positions" lists.
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ARGENTINA REACHES DEAL WITH 2 HEDGE FUNDS | Argentina offered to pay $6.5 billion to a group of hedge funds holding bonds it defaulted on 15 years ago,
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The average hedge fund gained roughly 6 percent in the first three months of 2019 after having lost 5 percent last year, Hedge Fund Research data show.
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The total number of hedge funds and "fund of funds," which funnel multiple hedge funds into a single investment platform, appears to be diminishing, according to HFR.
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Owning a car is a hedge against price hikes at Uber; owning your own computer server is a hedge against price hikes at AWS, and so forth.
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The HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report shows hedge funds increased assets to $20093 trillion, edging past the previous record set in the 3rd quarter of 2018.
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The average hedge fund gained 25.3 percent in September, leaving it up 218.8 percent for the first nine months of 2016, research firm Hedge Fund Research said.
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Buying the dip in tech helped hedge funds post a 3.5 percent return in January, the best monthly performance since September 2010, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Forbes pegs the hedge fund founder's net worth at $12.9 billion, and he ranked eighth on Forbes' list for the Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers in 2018.
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Hedge Fund Research, an industry database in Chicago, said the average energy hedge fund gained about 3 percent through February, with March data yet to be collated.
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The hedge fund, Partner Fund Management LP, filed the lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday afternoon, a letter to the hedge fund's investors said.
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Quantitative hedge funds returned about 5.1 percent annually the last five years, compared with 4.3 percent for the average hedge fund, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Instead, Juul received investments from hedge funds and mutual funds, like Fidelity Investments; Tao Capital, the investment arm of Nicholas Pritzker; and Tiger Global, a hedge fund.
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Cherney has worked with the group he now heads ever since joining the hedge fund in 2016 from BlackRock, where he was a hedge fund research analyst.
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Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said in a letter to investors that his fund used some of its profits from a market hedge to buy Hilton shares.
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These investors, he said, knew investing in hedge funds generally, and this hedge fund particularly, was risky; they also made a lot of money with Mr. Shkreli.
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That compares to an average activist hedge fund performance of 1.27 percent in June and 4.21 percent for the year, according to industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Early data from Hedge Fund Research shows that the average hedge fund lost 6.7 percent last year, slightly more the S&P 20.7's 21.8 percent loss.
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The average hedge fund was up 5.7 percent in the first quarter, the best start to a year since 2006, according to industry publication Hedge Fund Research.
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David Einhorn's hedge fund just saw almost half a billion dollars flood out, according to a report, the latest star hedge-fund manager facing massive client redemptions.
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It appears to have gone into hedge fund mode years ago, when one co-op member, also a hedge fund investor, made stock-picking his unpaid job.
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British hedge funds lost 0.89 percent in June, the month in which Britons voted to leave the European Union, after four months of positive performance "While investors will continue to monitor hedge fund performance closely over the second half of the year, hedge funds will have to respond to market uncertainty following the vote for Brexit," Amy Bensted, head of hedge fund products at Preqin said in a statement.
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Citadel ranks as one of the world's biggest hedge funds and has returned 8.8 percent in the first half of the year, making it one of the most successful compared with the average hedge fund, which is up less than 1 percent, according to Hedge Fund Research data.
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For example, D.E. Shaw & Co, a $40 billion hedge fund, hired Quentin Koffey in June from Elliott Management Corp, one of the world's most prominent activist hedge funds.
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The fact that Argentina has been able to settle with some of the holdout hedge funds could apply pressure on the remaining hedge funds to resolve the dispute.
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But the head of hedge funds at a major European bank that invests in more than 100 hedge funds said there were no crypto funds in his portfolio.
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Guidry receives support in her personal and professional life through an independent social group called The Hedge of Protection (The Hedge for short), a nod to Psalm 91.
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S. natural gas prices soften, market eyes big hedge fund longs", Reuters, April 24 "Hedge funds build big bullish position in U.S. natural gas", Reuters, April 10, "U.
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Microsoft is now the very top holding in its Hedge Fund VIP basket, meaning it is in the top ten holdings of the greatest number of hedge funds.
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Under Citadel chief Ken Griffin, the hedge fund has produced market-beating returns for decades and he is considered among the smartest hedge-fund managers in the business.
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By contrast, the average hedge fund returned a little more than 2.93 percent over the first nine months of the year, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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This marks the fourth short-selling cycle by the hedge funds since the start of 2015 ("Hedge funds in new cycle of oil short-selling", Reuters, July 25).
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During the first three months of 2018, 145 hedge funds went out of business compared with 158 that opened up for business, data from Hedge Fund Research shows.
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Ackman, who made three new investments this year, is now beating the average hedge fund's roughly flat return for the year, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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The Standard & Poor's 500 index has climbed 4 percent since January and the average hedge fund has climbed 3.5 percent this year, research firm Hedge Fund Research reported.
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In the hedge fund world, Bradley Saacks profiled eight people with new ideas about data, fees, and tech who are shaking up the $3.2 trillion hedge fund game.
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The latest move in the battle between hedge funds and private equity comes from a billionaire stock picker who represents the old guard of the hedge-fund industry.
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Gentle liquidation of long positions by former hedge fund bulls has been accelerated by a new wave of short selling from hedge fund bears anticipating a price correction.
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Read more: 8 highlights from hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio's Reddit AMA sessionDalio honed his work principles after founding Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge-fund, in 1975.
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Avianca Brasil has been talking to hedge fund Elliott Management Corp about the hedge fund providing a 250 million real ($68.59 million) loan, sources told Reuters this week.
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Global hedge fund launches dropped to a five-year low of 968 in 2015, down from 1,040 in 2014, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Such hedge funds now oversee $125 billion in assets, according to Hedge Fund Research, and remain on the hunt for targets on which they can deploy that capital.
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In response, hedge-fund managers have said their funds are not intended to track the market, but to be a hedge literally against and diversified from market risks.
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This marks the fourth short-selling cycle by the hedge funds since the start of 2015 ("Hedge funds in new cycle of oil short-selling", Reuters, July 25 ).
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In response, hedge-fund managers have said their funds are not intended to track the market, but to be a hedge — literally — against and diversified from market risks.
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In response, hedge-fund managers have said their funds are not intended to track the market, but to be a hedge — literally — against and diversified from market risks.
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Einhorn holds a short position of Tesla shares through his hedge fund, an investment decision that indicates the hedge fund executive thinks the price of Tesla will fall.
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Related columns: - Over-extended oil prices were primed for a fall, Reuters, May 30 - Oil prices tumble as hedge funds quit crude, Reuters, May 29 - Hedge funds exit crude but stay bullish on fuels, Reuters, May 21 - Hedge funds take profits after oil rally, Reuters, May 15 (Editing by Edmund Blair)
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Connor is launching his fund at a time many hedge funds are in the red - the average fund is off 2 percent this year, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge funds lost 2.35 percent on average in October, according to Preqin's index, while investors withdrew $4.6 billion of hedge fund capital in the third quarter of this year.
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The best-performing hedge funds this year and over the last three years include Aisling Capital, Boxer Capital and RA Capital Management, according to hedge-fund tracking firm Symmetric.io.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP, the world's biggest investor in hedge funds, said on Wednesday that it bought a minority stake in $13 billion hedge fund Marathon Asset Management.
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Massachusetts, which has some of the largest hedge fund allocations of any public pension fund in the United States, has long pushed for fee cuts at expensive hedge funds.
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Philippe Ferreira, head of hedge funds research at Lyxor Asset Management, said human-led so-called 'macro' hedge funds that sit on his firm's platform are overall short sterling.
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Hedge funds, one of the closest comparisons, have generated annual gains of just 4.9 percent over the past five years, according to Hedge Fund Research's Fund Weighted Composite Index.
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In 2018, oil has been steadily rising, which presents a risk for producers if they hedge at levels below the current price, so some companies elected not to hedge.
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Can they hedge it as soon as they know think the issue will possibly be coming, or do they wait to hedge until it is launched into the market?
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Missing from the conversation was the lack of diversity at hedge funds, even though the few female-run hedge funds out there have outperformed the rest of the industry.
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Hedge funds overall are having a strong comeback in 2019, posting a 3.5 percent return in January, the best monthly performance since September 2010, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Lansdowne Partners is a big hedge fund winner with more than 11 percent of the firm's long portfolio in Amazon alone, according to Symmetric, a hedge fund tracking firm.
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Macro hedge funds, which take directional bets on interest rates and currencies, were up less than 1 percent January-August, according to hedge fund data and analysis provider HFR.
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The hedge fund slightly underperformed its peers amid a tough year for similar strategies, which lost 3.1 percent over the same time period, data from Hedge Fund Research showed.
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Event-driven hedge funds, which aim to profit from company mergers and acquisitions, made gains of 16.7 percent in 2016, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Although many markets plunged last Friday, performance for macro hedge funds proved more resilient and they were down 0.55 percent on average, data tracker Hedge Fund Research on Tuesday.
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Hedge funds on average returned just 3.5 percent this year through May, less than half the gain of the S&P 500, according to calculations from Hedge Fund Research.
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The Goldman Sachs Hedge Industry VIP ETF (GVIP) will provide exposure to the 50 U.S. stocks that appear most frequently as top holdings in hedge fund's quarterly 1.353F filings.
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The longtime top trader for Steven A. Cohen, the deposed hedge fund kingpin, is leaving — just months before Mr. Cohen is expected to re-enter the hedge fund game.
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Catering to hedge funds is a major business for Deutsche Bank, and bank officials have blamed hedge funds that are betting against the stock for its plummeting share price.
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Long-short hedge funds, which bet on rising and falling share prices, are down 4.89 percent in the first two months of the year, Hedge Fund Research data showed.
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The Hedge Clippers is an organization that exposes the mechanisms hedge funds and billionaires use to influence government and politics in order to expand their wealth, influence and power.
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"There is a longer game here than just this one fund," said a hedge fund industry advisor who is not permitted to speak publicly about individual hedge fund firms.
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If there are any holders in the hedge fund that do not want to be party to the conversion, they must exit the hedge fund ahead of the conversion.
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The longtime top trader for Steven A. Cohen, the deposed hedge fund kingpin, is leaving — just months before Mr. Cohen is expected to re-enter the hedge fund game.
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But do these new clients trade anywhere near as much as the hedge funds, and are the trades they do as profitable as the ones the hedge funds favor?
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The hedge fund industry has not been immune to the coronavirus-fueled stock selloff, with Hedge Fund Research's global index falling 4.51% through the first two weeks of March.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors pulled money out from hedge funds in January following a poor performance across the industry in December, data from hedge fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp showed.
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The conference is best known for hedge fund managers making market moving presentations as well as introducing up-and-coming hedge fund stars in the Next Wave Sohn panel.
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Hedge funds, one of the closest comparisons, have generated annual gains of just 4.9 percent over the last five years, according to Hedge Fund Research's Fund Weighted Composite Index.
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Company spinoffs are, after all, a stock trick of hedge funds, providing an event that will likely spur a stock increase, allowing the hedge fund to sell and profit.
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"Every hedge fund, every well-off hedge fund manager, every partner in a major corporate law firm, people like Donald Trump himself, would be paying 15 percent," he said.
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Mr. Grom had discussions with several hedge fund clients after the Big Lots meetings, and four of those hedge funds sold their positions in Big Lots stock, the S.E.C. said.
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Rohal joined Man in January 2013 from hedge fund manager Makena Capital to help the company expand business in the U.S. and sell its diverse hedge fund and investment products.
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The winning bets come as equity hedge funds gained 2.1 percent in January, the strongest start to a calendar year for the industry since 2013, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Goldman's current hedge fund VIP list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the December quarter.
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It will hedge against drastic moves of not just dollar and euros but other currencies, he said, adding the fund will also hedge against both a strengthening and weakening yen.
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The hedge fund has not regained the assets it managed just eight months ago, when it oversaw about $1 billion, according to the Hedge Fund Intelligence Billion Dollar Club ranking.
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Hedge funds racked up losses of 2.6 percent in January and 0.03 percent in February but returns to end-November recovered slightly to 4.57 percent, showed Hedge Fund Research data.
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The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index fell 0.58 percent in December while the MSCI World Index declined 2.23 percent, Eurekahedge said, giving hedge funds an average annual performance of 1.56 percent.
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Hedge funds posted gains of 3.18 percent during the first quarter, which represented the best start to the year since 2013, according to the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark.
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The S&P 500 Index gained 1.3 percent over the same period, while the average hedge fund, as represented by the Hedge Fund Intelligence Americas Composite Index, fell 0.42 percent.
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Goldman's current hedge fund VIP list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 163 holdings of fundamentally-driven hedge fund portfolios" for the March quarter.
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Citadel said on Tuesday that Citadel Securities is a separate business from Citadel the hedge fund and that Citadel Securities does not execute trades on behalf of the hedge fund.
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So-called macro funds made gains of 2.24 percent in 2017 compared to the average hedge fund gain of 8.64 percent, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge fund performance tracker Eurekahedge hasn't provided data for October yet but its broadest Hedge Fund Index was up only 2316 pct for the year at the end of September.
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The plan exploits differences in pricing behavior between low-cost producers in OPEC that do not hedge and higher-cost shale driller that hedge a substantial portion of their output.
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Hedge Fund Research data showed hedge fund managers who made money from the vote tended to be varying positions in sterling, the yen, euro, gold, global equities and fixed income.
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"Hedge funds, after all, are salespeople, they want to raise assets and maintain assets," said Jon Caplis, founder of PivotalPath, a service that provides performance data for hedge fund investors.
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In their quarterly Global Hedge Book Analysis, Societe Generale and GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters said the global hedge book total stood at 270 tonnes at the end of March.
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The settlement focuses attention on one of the biggest and best-known hedge funds and one of the few publicly traded firms in the opaque $28 trillion hedge fund universe.
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But Barry Bausano, who oversees Deutsche Bank's hedge fund relationships, noted that the firm's prime brokerage business has about 800 hedge fund clients, a number that fluctuates week to week.
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A report released by the Hedge Clippers, a money-in-politics watchdog group, and the American Federation of Teachers principally faulted the short-term profit goals of hedge fund investors.
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The move marks one of the biggest hedge fund closings in recent months coming as industry returns have been disappointing and clients chafed at paying hedge funds' traditionally high fees.
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It rose 23 percent between January and November, the first source said, while hedge funds rose 0.27 percent on average over the same period, data from Hedge Fund Research shows.
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Mutual fund managers interested in converting hedge funds typically look for hedge funds with desirable strategies and excellent performance records that will also be compatible with a mutual fund structure.
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For Zabel, by contrast, the hedge-fund industry was native ground: his father was a founder of Schulte, Roth & Zabel, an immensely successful law firm that served hedge-fund clients.
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Feature How a hedge fund's efforts to take the island territory to the cleaners wound up before the Supreme Court — with ordinary Puerto Ricans arguing in the hedge fund's favor.
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The plan exploits differences in pricing behaviour between low-cost producers in OPEC that do not hedge and higher-cost shale drillers that hedge a substantial portion of their output.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Harding, founder of one of the world's biggest hedge funds, on Friday defended his firm against Warren Buffett's criticism of hedge fund fees last week.
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The bank's hedge fund VIP list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the June quarter.
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"The crypto hedge fund industry today is probably where the traditional hedge fund industry was in the early 1990s," Henri Arslanian, who oversees cryptocurrencies at PwC, said in a statement.
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Other cornerstone investors include U.K.-based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners ($300 million), U.S. hedge fund Darsana Master Fund ($200 million) and Chinese state-owned conglomerate China Chengtong Holdings ($100 million).
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A London-based event-driven hedge fund manager betting on a potential GKN transaction with Melrose told Reuters that hedge funds that bet on deals were "all over" the trade.
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Related columns: - Oil prices trapped by grim news from emerging markets (Reuters, May 15) - Hedge funds cautious on oil as economic outlook darkens (Reuters, May 13) - Oil prices correct lower on hedge fund sales (Reuters, May 7) - Hedge funds' oil positions start to look stretched (Reuters, April 15) (Editing by David Goodman)
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Overall, hedge funds gained 1 percent in the second quarter, according to Chicago-based fund tracker Hedge Fund Research, less than half of the 2.5 percent gain in the first quarter.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund giant Citadel on Wednesday became the latest U.S. investment firm to join the Hedge Fund Standards Board, the industry's global standard-setting body said in a newsletter.
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UCITS make up nearly a third of hedge funds in Britain, the world's second largest hedge fund sector after New York, and Brexit would force the sector to restructure, Krol added.
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The conference is best known for hedge-fund managers making market-moving presentations, and began this year with Next Wave Sohn, featuring the "next generation of talent" among hedge fund managers.
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A similar report by FactSet Insight that looked at a broader universe of hedge funds showed the equity exposure of the top 50 hedge funds declined by 6.9 percent in Q1.
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NYCERS paid nearly $40 million in fees to hedge funds during its 2015 financial year, while its hedge fund portfolio returned 3.89 percent over the year, according to its financial report.
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The so-called hedge fund "very important position" basket contains the 264 stocks that appear most often on the top 423 holdings of fundamentally-driven hedge funds, according to the firm.
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The hedge fund returned just 1 percent in the first quarter, trailing the S&P 500's 6 percent gain, according to the hedge fund's letter sent to shareholders last week.
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Starboard was one of only a handful of activist hedge funds to make money last year, returning 1.7 percent, compared with an 11.3 percent loss for the average activist hedge fund.
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In another sign of trouble for the nearly $3 trillion hedge fund industry, the pace at which hedge fund managers open new shops has slowed, according to the research firm Preqin.
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Gibbs pointed to hedge fund flows in the first quarter and the fourth quarter of 2017; in the first quarter, hedge funds were selling off tech stocks "like crazy," she said.
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Hedge funds are not always known for their transparency, even with their own investors, but side industries have popped up offering investors hedge-fund-like strategies in a more open wrapper.
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Other global macro hedge funds have gained 5.33 percent in 2019, according to Hedge Fund Research, after low single digit returns in 2016 and 2017 and a 4% loss in 2018.
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While the hedge fund industry in recent months has suffered the biggest quarterly outflow since the financial crisis, investors continue to allocate money to hedge funds that use computer-driven strategies.
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In fact, hedge funds tend to focus disproportionately on nearby contracts, where liquidity and turnover is greatest, so the impact of hedge fund selling on nearby months will have been magnified.
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But while EuroFX was promising stellar returns, hedge funds in foreign currencies were booking annual losses of 298 percent to 2000 percent on average, according to data tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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So far, activist investors are performing roughly in line with the average hedge fund, which lost an average 3 percent in the last 12 months, data from Hedge Fund Research show.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES IBA's VR could be upgraded if the bank is able to hedge its open foreign currency position and if the hedge is viewed by Fitch as effective and reliable.
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Former D.E. Shaw hedge fund manager planning legal action Things might be about to get heated in a dispute between $50 billion hedge fund D.E. Shaw and a fired portfolio manager.
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Ray Dalio – American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge fund firm Man Group (EMG.
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GRAPHIC: Maersk has lost its natural oil hedge - tmsnrt.
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" All it is, he says, is "an inflation hedge.
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John Paulson, founder of hedge fund Paulson & Company, Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO — There are hedge funds with blockbuster returns.
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"While some investors may have reduced allocations to the asset class overall, hedge fund assets continued to rise amid strong returns, hitting a record high at $3.3 trillion according to the Hedge Fund Research database (HFR)," he said, adding that hedge funds in 2019 returned on average 10.4%, their best year for a decade.
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"Hedge fund performance was severely impacted by the sell-off resulting from the escalation of trade, political and monetary policy uncertainties," Preqin's head of hedge funds Amy Bensted said in a statement.
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Why it matters: Once a hedge fund superstar, Einhorn's firm — which focuses on value investing — has struggled to outperform the broader market over the past few years, much like other hedge funds.
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"Now that may sound like a terrible result for hedge funds, but it's not a terrible result for the hedge fund managers," Buffett said to laughter at the event held in Omaha.
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Third Point Re, the Bermuda-based reinsurance arm of hedge fund Third Point, finished 0.6 percent weaker while Greenlight Re, a Caymans reinsurer run by hedge fund Greenlight ended down 0.23 percent.
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Hedge funds overall are underperforming this year, but the stocks most owned by the smart money are still beating the market significantly, according to Goldman Sachs' latest "Hedge Fund Trend Monitor" report.
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Hedge funds are struggling overall this year, but the stocks most-owned by the smart money is still outperforming the market soundly, according to Goldman Sachs' latest "Hedge Fund Trend Monitor" report.
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Related columns: - Hedge funds pause oil sales as Mideast tensions rise (Reuters, June 24) - Hedge funds sell more oil but balance of risks is shifting (Reuters, June 17) (Editing by Jane Merriman)
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While the data-provider's North American Hedge Fund Index has returned 4.73 percent year to date, its European Hedge Fund Index is counting losses over the first ten months of 0.65 percent.
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"I have very little regard for these hedge fund replicators," says Robert Frey, chief investment officer at FQS, a fund-of-hedge funds and a quantitative finance professor at Stony Brook University.
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Investors pulled an estimated $23.3 billion from hedge funds over the first half of the year, according to Hedge Fund Research, less than 1 percent of the industry's $2.9 trillion overall assets.
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Last month, New York City's largest pension fund said it was abandoning hedge funds entirely, and the Illinois State Board of Investment voted to reduce its hedge fund portfolio by $214.4 billion.
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A few hedge fund managers continue to post sterling returns, and both A.I.G. and MetLife said they planned to retain some hedge funds that fit their investment strategies and met performance targets.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Mnuchin met with hedge fund managers at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, where the nation's largest hedge fund conference, the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or SALT, is being held.
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The benchmark Hedge Fund Intelligence Americas Commodities Index has produced an average annual return of 1.53 percent over the last three years compared to 4.1 percent from hedge funds across all strategies.
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Other cornerstone investors include UK-based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners ($300 million), U.S. hedge fund Darsana Master Fund LP ($200 million) and Chinese state-owned conglomerate China Chengtong Holdings Group ($100 million).
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Related columns: - Hedge funds pause oil sales as Mideast tensions rise (Reuters, June 24) - Hedge funds sell more oil but balance of risks is shifting (Reuters, June 17) (Editing by Jane Merriman)
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BOSTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Leading European hedge fund firm Brevan Howard's main hedge fund lost 1.99 percent for 2015 after falling 3.91 percent in December, according to performance information seen by Reuters.
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A stock trader at one of "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli's hedge funds testified Tuesday he did not see Shkreli "buying and selling stock" or doing other things hedge fund operators normally do.
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Koppelman said one "very, very famous hedge-fund guy" pointed out that fictional hedge-fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod would never fly around in his "sardine can" of a PJ in real life.
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He said the cost of the fuel hedge was marginal and that banks that typically executed the fuel hedge included Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp, Banco do Brasil SA and Citibank.
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Organized labor has also been highly critical of hedge funds; a coalition of New York state unions are the major backers of the "Hedge Clippers," a protest group launched in early 2015.
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Hedge funds aren't trying to find women A hedge fund is a loose term used to describe a wide array of investment firms that deploy an even wider range of investing strategies.
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Related columns: - Oil prices tumble as hedge funds quit crude, Reuters, May 29 - Hedge funds trapped in near-term Brent futures, Reuters, May 22 - Hedge funds take profits after oil rally, Reuters, May 15 - Sanctions spell end of OPEC deal, Reuters, May 9 - Rising oil prices put demand destruction back on the agenda, May 2 (Editing by Edmund Blair)
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Total assets under management in the hedge fund industry reached $3.02 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter, the first time that hedge fund assets surpassed $3 trillion, the research firm said.
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Hedge funds on average were down 22016 percent on the day of June 215.1, while trend-following machine-based strategies gained 0.71 percent, according to data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research (HFR).
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The average global hedge fund has returned 2.48 percent this year, according to data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR), falling far short of the Standard & Poor 500 index' 10.7 percent gain this year.
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Reflecting on his worst year ever, all-star hedge fund manager David Einhorn explained in a letter to investors why his hedge funds lost more than a third of their value last year.
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The hedge fund manager is also using gold as a hedge against "imprudent" global fiscal and monetary policies as the national debt has ballooned to more than $2 trillion under the current administration.
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Investor in the Mood to Cut Hedge Fund Exposure | Preqin's survey of institutional investors showed that more are planning to cut their hedge fund holdings this year than are planning to increase them.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the hedge fund's 2013 settlement vacated after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it would not oppose the request by lawyers for the now-defunct hedge fund.
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Year-to-date, hedge funds still trail the S&P, but May's stock market swoon showed hedge funds remain a solid alternative for investors to offset risk and may help redeem the industry.
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The best-performing strategy indexes over the year were the Eurekahedge Arbitrage Hedge Fund Index, up 4.46 percent, followed by the CBOE Eurekahedge Relative Value Hedge Fund Index which was up 4.30 percent.
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The Wall Street Journal said bank auditors were examining whether the trades between Deutsche and the hedge fund had resulted in inflated fees being paid to the hedge fund and the bank's staff.
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Elsewhere in hedge fund news, a hot new fund backed by investing legend Stan Druckenmiller has made a big hire, and another government agency has barred hedge fund honcho Steve Cohen until 2018.
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The hedge fund clone ETFs started off with good performance but the risk of piling into something every hedge funds owns is taking it on the chin when the tide is going out.
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Overall, the average hedge fund dropped nearly 3 percent in October, the worst monthly loss since 2011, in large part due to over-exposures to the technology industry, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Some big names took stakes in Snap during the first quarter, including billionaire George Soros' hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third Point and Daniel Och's Och-Ziff Capital Management.
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It was founded by Ricardo Santos Silva, former deputy president of hedge fund Lyxor Asset Management, and Aba Rosa Schubert, who was previously a partner at Eton Park Capital Management, a hedge fund.
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Priomha's longest-running fund posted a 10.1% return—before fees—in its latest financial year, a period during which an index of global hedge funds compiled by Hedge Fund Research fell by 5.7%.
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That comes as the average quant has returned 6.25% through the end of September, according to Hedge Fund Research, less than the 8% return for the average equity hedge fund on the year.
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As a group, activists have already lost 6.52 percent in the first two months of 1003, far more than the average hedge fund's 2 percent drop, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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And so, what should be an uneventful hedge has created a vicious feedback loop: Historically low yields increase the need to hedge, which leads to more bond buying that suppresses yields even more.
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The concentration of hedge fund short positions has left prices vulnerable to a sharp reversal in the event that prices stop sliding or hedge funds try to lock in some of their profits.
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The bank's hedge fund VIP (very important positions) list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the September quarter.
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"All hedge funds, including commodities, that are being scrutinized for near-term performance are coming under pressure," said Jonathan Goldberg, founder of one of the best-known energy-focused hedge funds, BBL Commodities.
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Hedge funds increased their allocations to companies with big revenue exposure to China during the third quarter, according to Goldman's latest research looking at 833 hedge funds with $2.1 trillion in equity positions.
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The building has housed many famous and powerful people such as hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb, Goldman Sachs ex-CEO Lloyd Blankfein, hedge-fund founder Daniel Och, Sting, Denzel Washington, and Jeff Gordon
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Those measures include reducing the pension fund's hedge fund allocation to 2 percent of assets from 3 percent and not putting money into a hedge fund for more than a year, Freeman said.
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Prosecutors say that Shkreli lied to investors about the performance of his hedge funds, and then looted stock and cash from Retrophin to pay the investors back their stake in his hedge funds.
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Hedge funds have long paid extremely well with the 25 best-paid hedge fund managers earning $13 billion last year, Institutional Investor's Alpha's 15th annual ranking of the industry's highest-earning managers show.
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Funds of hedge funds traditionally charged an annual management fee of up to 1 percent of an investor's assets and a performance fee of up to 10 percent to pick individual hedge funds.
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"Gold should perform as a convex macro asset market hedge, resilient during ongoing risk market rallies but a better hedge during sell-offs and vol spikes," the analysts led by Aakash Doshi said.
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HEDGE FUNDS On Monday, the biggest names in the hedge fund world — including William A. Ackman, David Einhorn and Jeffrey Gundlach — will share their investment ideas at the Sohn Investment Conference in Manhattan.
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The bank's hedge fund VIP (very important positions) list consists of the 7.93 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the June quarter.
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The bank's hedge fund VIP (very important positions) list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the December quarter.
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"It's hard to attract money and run a long-short fund when the broad market is going up 20 percent a year," said Ken Heinz, president of hedge fund tracker Hedge Fund Research.
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BlueMountain Capital, a New York hedge fund that has a roughly 2 percent stake in PG&E, proposed the slate of directors, which includes utility executives, lawyers, bankers and a hedge fund investor.
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Activist hedge funds own less than 1% of the stockmarket.
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Hedge funds and money managers in the week to Jan.
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The hedge fund industry overall was up nearly 4.5 percent.
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In our hedge fund, we're actually long the Chinese operators.
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Clients include pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and institutions.
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Jana is led by influential hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein.
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That was backed by affiliates of Lampert's hedge fund, ESL.
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Though considered an inflation hedge, gold isn't necessarily going up.
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Hedge fund returns for 20.7 are trickling into investors' inboxes.
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On Saturday, Pippa Middleton married hedge fund manager James Matthews.
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The average hedge fund lost about 1 percent last year.
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So are hedge funds, family offices and even pension funds.
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It was a little bit of a hedge from Powell.
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Fatima could see their skullcaps bobbing above the flowery hedge.
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However, hedge funds saw investor redemptions in the first quarter.
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Cambodia also uses China as a hedge against the West.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Elliott believes Walt Disney's (DIS.
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The average hedge fund was up 5.92% through September 2017.
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The hedge funds own a combined 7.1 percent of United.
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Activist hedge funds specialize in taking aim at troubled companies.
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Property used to be thought of as an inflation hedge.
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Quant hedge funds, both new and old, are piling in.
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U.S. hedge funds rarely target foreign companies for activist campaigns.
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John McCain did not hedge in his own statement. Sen.
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Gold is both a haven and a hedge against inflation.
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Some hedge funds are reportedly considering moving overseas in response.
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But it's been a very tough period for hedge funds.
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Karp runs $3.8 billion hedge fund firm Tourbillon Capital Partners.
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Quant hedge funds are likely buying Micron on the news.
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Fortress's investments span real estate, hedge funds and private equity.
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In 2013, the hedge fund manager presented 4503 more picks.
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Stocks fell, however, led by declines in rand hedge shares.
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With trade tensions rising, Beijing's hedge is worth the effort.
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This is a key hedge for gold in my view.
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The demand for commodities has also filtered through hedge funds.
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After all, he's not in the hedge fund business anymore.
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Vietnam is also a valuable hedge against Chinese administrative caprice.
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Bolster was the vice president at a successful hedge fund.
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Gold is often used as a hedge against inflation risk.
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Government bonds are in general a hedge against equity risk.
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Yet there is not much of that to hedge against.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss hedge fund operator and Credit Suisse (CSGN.
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Someone has to take the other side of the hedge.
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Many macro hedge funds have struggled so far this year.
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Bingo. Hedge funds are there because they provide a counterbalance.
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So the need for not correlated hedge funds is definite.
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Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is on the comeback trail.
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Only the smaller specialist players will remain "pure" hedge funds.
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In 2014, the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 4.64 percent.
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Here are the 15 hedge fund founders that made it.
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Ackman's hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, declined to comment.
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One possible solution is a neutral 50 percent currency hedge.
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So Pollak has no regrets about leaving the hedge fund.
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But 2017 has been a bad year for hedge funds.
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Gerchen Keller, by contrast, is structured like a hedge fund.
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Point72 Asset Management succeeded SAC Capital, Cohen's hedge fund firm.
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It already offers hedge fund, infrastructure and distressed credit investments.
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Griffin's hedge fund manages more than $26 billion for partners.
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Inflation has fallen dramatically, reducing its value as a hedge.
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The stocks are among the top holdings of hedge funds.
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Investors would have done better to stick to hedge financing.
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STROMBERG: Don't good businessmen hedge against risks, not ignore them?
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It is a strategy that is popular with hedge funds.
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Most hedge funds make bullish or bearish bets on stocks.
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First, the authors found that hedge funds dominate appraisal cases.
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China's hedge fund industry also remains small by global standards.
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Finally, there is the wild card of hedge fund arbitrageurs.
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The hedge fund industry is often slow to embrace change.
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As hedge fund crowding has recently increased, so has leverage.
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Only about 2 percent of hedge fund managers are women.
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Read more: Hedge funds are getting swamped by alternative data.
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But the current interest from hedge funds could dissipate quickly.
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And hedge fund assets plunged by $22018 billion in 2016.
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Commodity hedge funds fell by 6% last year, eVestment said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in British hedge fund Man Group (EMG.
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So avoiding clarity seemed intended as a compromise, a hedge.
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For hedge funds, that number includes a lot of zeros.
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According to Hamm, the company did not hedge its production.
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Citadel is one of the most successful hedge fund empires.
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Gold is often seen as a hedge against rising inflation.
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Some hedge funds have found success on a smaller scale.
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Another hedge fund has fallen prey to seemingly unbeatable markets.
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Was Time purchased by Zero Hedge when I wasn't looking?
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The settlement will be extremely profitable for the hedge funds.
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Then I found a hedge fund guy named Chris James.
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Hedge funds AQR Capital and Balyasny Capital took similar steps.
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The state has roughly $9 billion invested in hedge funds.
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Kristin Davis started her career working at a hedge fund.
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Some hedge that bet by banking sperm before getting snipped.
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Hedge funds are notably hush hush about their portfolio holdings.
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Carlyle Group is turning its back on hedge fund investments.
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Goldman tracks a portfolio of hedge funds' top 10 holdings.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn is in a rut.
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His hedge against the stress of chaos and bloody warfare?
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Prices for gold, a traditional hedge against inflation risk, rose.
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The hedge fund did not sell any of its shares.
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The bet on CP earned the hedge fund $2.5 billion.
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Other hedge fund superstars had a far less successful 2018.
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Because it's either hedge funds or internet billionaires doing this.
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The hedge funds had sued for payment at full value.
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Ivandjiiski. The Bulgarian connection intrigued me because Zero Hedge runs
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Baupost is not the only hedge fund in this situation.
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He resigned his job at a hedge fund and, in
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While Zero Hedge isn't mentioned in the court documents that
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Which is hedge fund speak for squeezing out money now.
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Hedge transactions could be executed beginning next week, one said.
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But hedge fund managers aren't worried about losing this advantage.
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It also oversees nonbank financial firms such as hedge funds.
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But he says the hedge funders laughed off his suggestion.
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Zero Hedge was banned from Twitter for Wuhan coronavirus misinformation.
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He became a partner in the hedge fund BlueMountain Capital.
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These include hedge funds, mutual funds, leveraged buyout firms, etc.
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In September, his Omega hedge fund managed about $5.4 billion.
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The group includes hedge funds Solus, Brigade and Claren Road.
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"Hedge funds are not generally constitutional formalists," he said, dryly.
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Hedge funds' secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images.
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That deal also was spurred by hedge fund Elliott Management.
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His hedge fund just invested about $900 million in Starbucks.
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Bernie Sanders of Vermont Hedge fund founder Tom Steyer Sen.
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Mr. Tomasetti, 38, is a lawyer at a hedge fund.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is a former hedge fund manager.
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Amy Klobuchar, and the former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.
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The hedge fund firm was founded by Hohn in 2003.
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The hedge fund also bet on technology stocks over banks.
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Strategy Explained Hedge funds are written about as a monolith.
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He added that gold provides a hedge against event risks.
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Of course, hedge funds continue to underperform the broader market.
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Some still see bitcoin as the ultimate hedge against disaster.
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And for many hedge funds the results are even worse.
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Even so, hedge funds are competing more fiercely over fees.
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The activist hedge fund ValueAct reportedly pushed for Ballmer's ouster.
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That ruling overturned the convictions of two hedge fund managers.
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Choi: We continue to increase our exposure to hedge fund.
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So when asked about Biden maybe you hedge a bit.
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Hedge fund managers quickly expanded their numbers on these lists.
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Breakingviews Even hedge fund royalty isn't immune to weak performance.
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State pension funds have been dumping their hedge fund portfolios.
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It's a nice hedge on the rest of the market.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman again unloaded on Sen.
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Christopher Cole, founder of hedge fund Artemis Capital Management, agrees.
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Russian money funds U.S. hedge funds, banks, and think tanks.
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Total assets in hedge funds now stand at $2.9 trillion.
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Others are still inclined to hedge on Mr. Cruz's merits.
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Hedge funds have started bashing themselves — here's what they're saying.
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Best known as the creator of the Brambly Hedge series.
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KS: There will be hedge funds, there will be everything.
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That compared to the average macro hedge fund, which was down 1.8 percent in the year to end-September after returns of 2.2 percent in 2017, data from industry tracker hedge fund research showed.
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He was convicted in 2016 of defrauding investors in two hedge funds he ran, and of conspiring to fraudulently manipulate stock shares of Retrophin, the pharmaceuticals company he founded after his hedge funds collapsed.
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In the first three months of 2913, hedge fund redemptions were the worst seen in any quarter for seven years, as investors withdrew more than $15 billion, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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Stephen Coltman, a senior investment manager at financial giant Aberdeen Asset Management, which invests directly in about 130 hedge funds, also said there is "definitely a bearish view among hedge fund managers on sterling".
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Within foreign bonds, Daido plans to reduce U.S. bonds and cut currency hedge ratio on them because of rising dollar hedge costs, Yoshihiro Okita, executive officer of investment planning, told Reuters in an interview.
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Common Sense Like many sophisticated investors, the nation's largest insurers drank the hedge fund Kool-Aid, pouring billions into the high-fee investment funds and helping drive hedge fund assets to over $23 trillion.
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BUSINESS DAY The Common Sense column on Friday, about insurance company losses on their hedge fund investments, misspelled the given name of a hedge fund manager who commented on the difficulty in making profits.
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And now, there is new data to rub salt into the industry's wounds: Over the last three months, investors pulled $22 billion out of hedge funds, according to the research firm Hedge Fund Research.
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The equity investors, Horsman said, are mostly a mix of family offices, hedge funds, and some hedge fund managers Horsman had in his network who ended up investing their personal money into Integrated CBD.
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Sounds Alarm on Hedge Fund Reinsurers Offshore reinsurers affiliated with hedge funds have failed to make a profit from providing reinsurance coverage for more than four years, according to Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency.
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DEMS TAKE ON HEDGE FUND 'WOLF PACKS': A pair of Senate Democrats have set their sights on hedge fund "wolf packs" they say take over businesses to kill them and reap a profit. Sens.
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" Barry Bausano, chairman of Deutsche's hedge fund business, told CNBC that its prime brokerage division, which services hedge funds, was "still very profitable" but said there was "no question we have a perception issue.
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"The industry has a very bad history of money going into it and never coming out," says the hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, who founded one of the world's largest short-selling hedge funds.
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Hedge funds are designed to mitigate risk, the argument goes, and so investors in them might sacrifice some gains as markets rise while waiting for hedge funds to prove themselves in more challenging times.
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"Volatility among the most popular stocks and low net leverage in a rising market have weighed on recent hedge fund returns," strategist Ben Snider said in Goldman's quarterly "Hedge Fund Trend Monitor" report Monday.
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Hedge funds on average were down 0.18 percent on Friday as many markets fell sharply, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research showed, with the pound sliding 10 percent to a 31-year low.
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In a rating of hedge funds' top 10 holdings, 16 held Alphabet in the most recent quarter, topping the 15 hedge funds holding Facebook, Citi Research analyst Tobias Levkovich wrote in a note Thursday.
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The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, which tracks hedge fund performance, has gained 7.2 percent in the first 10 months of 2017, marking its best return since 2013, data from Hedge Fund Research show.
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The Wall Street veteran co-founded Deutsche Bank's Hedge Fund Priority Client group and was a key player in establishing the German bank's U.S. hedge fund strategy, according to Pantera's investor letter published Tuesday.
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And now, there is new data to rub salt into the industry's wounds: Over the last three months, investors pulled $28 billion out of hedge funds, according to the research firm Hedge Fund Research.
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And identifying the next superstar hedge fund managers is also becoming tougher as the average fund returned less than 1 percent in the first half of 2018, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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Hedge fund managers are also feeling the ethical squeeze, with growing investor demand the key driver in hedge fund ESG investing, according to research published last week by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
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ARGENTINA REACHES DEAL WITH 2 HEDGE FUNDS | Argentina offered to pay $6.5 billion to a group of hedge funds holding bonds it defaulted on 15 years ago, Alexandra Stevenson and Jonathan Gilbert report in DealBook.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund Tourbillon Capital Partners, which has made headlines with negative returns lately, hired former hedge fund manager Ross Berman as its president and chief strategy officer, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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This hedge fund is not about putting a dent in the universe, a goal to which techies often aspire, but about putting bulges in its partners' wallets, a goal to which hedge funds always aspire.
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Nearly 30 years ago, Hennessee-Gradante helped create the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index, widely followed because there was only a limited amount of public information about which hedge fund strategies were making or losing money.
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Last year marked a tough time for the hedge fund industry, Loeb acknowledged, noting that some investors had stopped putting money into hedge funds altogether and that his firm was also hit with redemption requests.
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So for now it's hedge fund versus hedge fund, with Californians pinning their hopes on a bankruptcy judge to ensure that they see some of the proceeds and that PG&E starts doing what's right.
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There is a strong connection between the perceived chances of Donald Trump winning the presidential election and the desire to hedge against a market drop, according to the manager of one options-focused hedge fund.
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Perry Capital, the hedge fund firm founded by Richard Perry and Paul Leff in 1988, plans to wind down its main hedge funds, according to a letter sent to investors Monday and seen by Reuters.
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"As one of the biggest activist campaigners out in the hedge fund industry, they have the ability to back their convictions very aggressively and patiently," said Mohammad Hassan, head of hedge-fund analysis at Eurekahedge.
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The seven hedge fund products are all under Bridgewater Associates LP, a U.S. hedge fund firm, according to a recent statement on the website of China Foreign Exchange Trading System & National Interbank Funding Center (CFETS).
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Many so-called "macro" hedge funds, which bet more generally on macroeconomic trends, also lost money from oil over the past six months, said Philippe Ferreira, head of hedge funds research at Lyxor Asset Management.
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However, OPEC and the hedge funds have created a one-way bet that will only fall apart if oil demand slows, compliance falters, non-OPEC supplies accelerate too much, or the hedge funds bail out.
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Quarterly disclosures of hedge fund managers' stock holdings in 13F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are one of the few public ways of tracking what hedge fund managers are selling and buying.
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This happened as the Hedge Fund Standards Board agreed with the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds to pursue measures designed to simultaneously improve governance standards and the relationship between hedge fund clients and managers.
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The hedge fund's group of director nominees includes an expert in resolving victim claims, a former treasurer of the state of California, a prominent hedge fund manager, and people with banking and energy industry expertise.
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Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management is Howard Hughes' biggest shareholder, is trimming the firm's holdings for tax reasons and insists he hasn't soured on one of his hedge fund's longest-held investments.
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In fact, Goldman strategists advised investors looking for a viable equity strategy to do the exact opposite of the Hedge Fund VIP List — chase stocks that are among the least popular in hedge fund portfolios.
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The subsequent correction in prices as hedge funds sought to exit from some of the record net long position was largely predictable ("Risks rise as hedge funds place record bet on oil", Reuters, May 23 ).
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Fitch also notes that reduced investor appetite for hedge funds as an asset class, combined with challenged performance relative to benchmarks, has pressured fund flows and fees for the hedge fund industry as a whole.
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"In theory, hedge funds are supposed to be able to make money in up or down markets," said Ian Winer, a former hedge fund executive who is now an advisory board member at Drexel Hamilton.
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Last year hedge funds mustered less than half the 2300 per cent return of the S&P 500, according to an index of more than 2,000 hedge funds, put together by HFR, a research company.
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HEDGE FUNDS MAKE A POOR START TO THE YEAR | Last year was tough for hedge fund managers, but this year is starting to look just as bad and investors are finding it hard to stomach,
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Thanks largely to Valeant's tumble, Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management suffered back-to-back losses in 2015 and 2016 as his reputation as one of the hedge fund industry's most talented investors dimmed.
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Private players like hedge funds stayed away from sovereign debt because there was no way for them to get their money back if a country defaulted; a hedge fund couldn't take a country to court.
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Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet make up 5% of all hedge funds&apos long portfolios, Goldman says, and those three stocks have been among the top five positions in hedge funds for the last 14 quarters.
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Short covering was widely expected after hedge funds established record or near-record short positions in most contracts by the end of June ("Hedge funds walk into a bear trap in oil", Reuters, July 3).
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In 2017, the hedge fund owned nearly 5 percent, Reuters reported.
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"Considering the hedge costs, investors may prefer French bonds," he added.
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Big institutional money managers trade the VVIX to hedge long positions.
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Argentina was taking a legal position, just like the hedge funds.
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" He added, "The hedge fund guys are getting away with murder.
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One major hedge fund, however, took the opportunity to buy shares.
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He spent the last thirty years investing in new hedge funds.
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The hedge fund is currently trying to replace Campbell's entire board.
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One time I visited Stevie Cohen, the massive hedge fund manager.
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Hedge funds whose trades were included in the release were angry.
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Hedge funds typically jealously guard the details of their short trades.
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NEW YORK/BOSTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp.
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Related columns: "Hedge funds go all-in on oil", Reuters, Nov.
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Interest in hedge funds, property, paintings and wine has risen sharply.
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Gold mining companies have been increasing the amount they hedge recently.
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Hedge funds and private equity funds know this formula very well.
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Klarman cited the significant rise in hedge fund competition and assets.
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Managers most often cited gold as the best hedge against protectionism.
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Sears is borrowing more money from CEO Eddie Lampert's hedge fund.
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She's working in a male-dominated hedge fund that's overwhelmingly #withher.
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You'll get served ads for guitar-shaped catnip hedge grow kits.
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Many of the firm's major shareholders are now U.S. hedge funds.
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Several short activist hedge funds, on the other hand, have thrived.
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The average hedge fund fell 3.64% in 2015, according to HFR.
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So buying Italian inflation is a clean hedge for redenomination risk.
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Dollar-denominated accounts are a popular hedge against inflation in Argentina.
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U.S. hedge fund King Street is similarly fed up with Toshiba.
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Read MoreThese hedge-fund billionaires were the hottest hands in 2015
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Airlines, for example, could scramble to hedge against soaring fuel costs.
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Lots of investors and companies want to hedge their currency exposure.
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"I'm not worried about China slowing," said a hedge-fund economist.
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Fear for tighter margins going forward has encouraged them to hedge.
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Still, hedge funds and other large speculators aren't taking any chances.
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Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is taking more digs at Tesla.
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Go deeper: A hedge fund titan's lesson from the financial crisis
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But it is getting harder for them to hedge their bets.
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Clinton and Mezvinsky, a hedge-fund executive, married in July 2010.
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Hedge fund skepticism abounds as many big-name managers are faltering.
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As a hedge fund, aren't your investors expecting returns fairly quickly?
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These are offshore contracts used to hedge exposure to the ringgit.
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You briefly temped at a hedge fund in your early 20s.
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Hancock added that AIG's is reducing its exposure to hedge funds.
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Related columns: "Hedge funds lighten bullish positions in oil", Reuters, Feb.
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Hedge fund executive and bundler Orin Kramer is also backing Buttigieg.
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Police believe someone threw it over a hedge into the garden.
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"I'm still voting for Trump," Randy, a hedge-fund trader, said.
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Hedge fund manager Robert Mercer previously donated to the latter PAC.
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Before that, I worked at a hedge fund in New York.
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Koenig often sounds more inclined to hedge than to seriously commit.
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Gold is often seen as a hedge against oil-led inflation.
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So says billionaire hedge fund guru and finance entrepreneur Ray Dalio.
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That should underpin the appeal of gold as an inflation hedge.
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It's been difficult year for hedge funds in the macro space.
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Hedge funds have much larger bullish positions in Brent than WTI.
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It manages structured credit, hedge funds and carry and financing funds.
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But the participation of other hedge fund executives has been muted.
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Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund.
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"Prosperity can't just be for CEOs and hedge fund managers," Mrs.
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Hedge fund managers default to a macro perspective of whole markets.
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She found a job in a hedge fund after three months.
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To be sure, there were also hedge funds that backed away.
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Hedge funds also rotated out of financials and consumer discretionary stocks.
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The basic one is to help its companies hedge against volatility.
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He trims the grass with a hedge clipper and weed whacker.
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S types tend to get runover in the hedge fund world.
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"Hedge funds should rank well on all these factors," he said.
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Indeed, neither of the hedge funders has responded to the challenge.
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How is it still a hedge fund if there's no hedging?
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Creative destruction in the hedge fund business has further to go.
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His hedge fund, Tudor Investment, reportedly manages $7 billion in assets.
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But hedge funds' performance lately doesn't exactly help them sell themselves.
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The internet company is driving the market's and hedge funds' performance.
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After years of lackluster returns, hedge funds are finding some footing.
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Hedge funds are doubling down on their view that the dollar .
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The best investors acknowledge that and hedge against their future mistakes.
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That's according to data compiled by hedge fund research firm Symmetric.
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That's double the average return that hedge funds had last year.
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It was not clear whether Mexico has started executing the hedge.
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The hedge funds were both partially known by the initials MSMB.
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Gold is seen as a hedge against political and economic worries.
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The hedge fund held 26.1 million shares as of May 27.
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Sometime in the mid-2000s, hedge fund owners got an idea.
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Multi-strategy hedge fund Carlson Capital has occasionally taken activist positions.
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Bullion is seen as a hedge against political and economic uncertainty.
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This kind of trading is mostly done by sophisticated hedge funds.
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The hedge fund also added a position in cybersecurity firm Fortinet.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in British hedge fund firm Man Group (EMG.
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Still, not everyone is a fan of the hedge funder's methods.
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Lampert and his hedge fund own nearly half of the shares.
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We have some in hedge funds and some in conservative bonds.
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GVC's hedge might not cover the full extent of the damage.
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For hedge fund titan John Paulson, history may be repeating itself.
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This asymmetry makes the CHF the best choice as a hedge.
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Sharon Horgan's hair looks like a hedge but she's still fabulous.
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Rauner's top contributor is Ken Griffin of the Citadel hedge fund.
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An activist hedge fund bought a 2% stake in Morgan Stanley.
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You can imagine hedge funds and financial institutions using Ledger products.
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I am a teacher, and he is a hedge fund guy.
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Traders still go long stocks and short futures as a hedge.
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However, he does like one name to hedge against any volatility.
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Lore represents a large volume of cryptocurrency hedge funds throughout world.
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Jeff Bezos once worked at D.E. Shaw, the quantitative hedge fund.
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"Hedge fund fees are too darn high in general," said Miller.
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They could avoid this trouble by restricting themselves to hedge financing.
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Cevian declined immediate comment on Thursday, as did hedge fund Elliott.
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Folger Hill is far from being the only struggling hedge fund.
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"Who could run hedge funds?" a former Chinese regulatory official says.
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I've followed it from when I was a hedge fund manager.
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Hedge fund offices continue to dazzle, even if returns do not.
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"Prosperity can't just be for C.E.O.s and hedge fund managers," Mrs.
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Four hedge fund managers made more than $1 billion last year.
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"They are called hedge funds for a reason," Soh told Reuters.
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Turning a data company into a hedge fund isn't always easy.
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Michael Weinberg, head of hedge funds and alternative alpha at APG
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"Hedge funds really don't try to beat the market," he said.
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He also worked for George Soros's hedge fund, according to BuzzFeed.
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That makes it bigger than most of the quant hedge funds.
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They now account for 30% of everything managed by hedge funds.
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The hospital is still cordoned off by a hedge and fences.
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Peter Brown will continue on as CEO of the hedge fund.
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Some hedge funds have been also been releasing home-built tools.
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Winer said that too many firms are "masquerading" as hedge funds.
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They don't adequately hedge themselves, essentially making them leveraged long funds.
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Most recently, the hedge fund has focused on Yahoo Inc YHOO.
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For hedge funds, the strategy is sometimes different than retail investors.
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International banks and hedge funds are doing the work for them.
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Regional hedge funds, such as OCP Asia, are also swooping in.
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Hedge funds and institutional bondholders want to get paid in full.
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One is a hedge fund manager, another is a shipping magnate.
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But hedge funds have had their eye on the company before.
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Giving money to down-ballot candidates feels like a good hedge.
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The only hedge to that is being able to govern effectively.
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He said the consensus at his hedge fund, Tudor Investment Corp.
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Investors don't need to bend themselves backwards to hedge against risk.
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A Bitcoin Hedge Fund's Return: 25,004% (That Wasn't a Typo)U.
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PICKER: I GUESS I'LL STILL HAVE A JOB COVERING HEDGE FUNDS.
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AA's largest shareholders include hedge fund Parvus and Woodford Investment Management.
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The enthusiasm hedge fund managers are showing is not universally shared.
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UK research outfit Autonomous NEXT has counted 68 crypto hedge funds.
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Early on, he did work for hedge funds and their investors.
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SunEdison, a renewable energy company, was once a hedge fund darling.
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One hedge fund manager believes Tesla's business model is permanently broken.
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He then ran his own hedge fund, specializing in energy trading.
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It's a great way to hedge against the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
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Lampert's hedge fund did not return a phone call seeking comment.
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"Also to fight inflation, equity is a good hedge," he said.
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Finally, bettors often bet just to hedge against an unpleasant result.
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OUR FIRST IS HEDGE FUND LEGEND, LEON COOPERMAN, OF OMEGA ADVISORS.
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Since he does not manage hedge funds, this wouldn't affect him.
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The hedge fund's unit pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
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Of the original fourteen, five trees Grow streetside, outside the hedge.
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Last year, Fortress decided to scale down its hedge fund offerings.
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She will have her hands full with her humongous hedge fund.
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He has selected all 12 biotech stocks in Hedge Knight's portfolio.
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I call it my 'Trump hedge' because you just never know.
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He and his hedge fund played an unusual role at Sears.
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Entrepreneurship Hildy Kuryk was thinking about working at a hedge fund.
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In other hedge fund news: David Einhorn had a bad month.
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In 1986, he founded his own hedge fund, Farallon Capital Management.
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Hedge funds are having their worst year since the 2100 crisis.
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He said he did not even know what hedge funds were.
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Mr. Dalio is the world's wealthiest hedge fund manager this year.
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Millions of readers visit Zero Hedge each month, drawn by the
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Hedge published a story claiming, without evidence, that the U.S. was
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What Zero Hedge became, in essence, was a forum for the
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The synergy between Zero Hedge and the Trump era was made
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I had noticed that a few months after Zero Hedge launched,
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Hedge is, for all intents and purposes, a Russian disinformation operation.
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Turner left Microsoft to become CEO of hedge fund Citadel Securities.
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Gold is often seen as a hedge against oil-led inflation.
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Art became an investment; art became a hedge instead of art.
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Bankrolling one set of shareholders is the hedge fund Elliott Management.
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They're sophisticated, and they know the New York hedge fund game.
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Later that year, Staley left JPMorgan and joined a hedge fund.
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In this case, many hedge funds were not spared the pain.
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"She may be more dangerous," said one hedge fund portfolio manager.
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That's better than doing nothing, and might affect some hedge funds.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Hedge funds go to the Cayman Islands to incorporate.
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I know many people in hedge funds, and that's their attitude.
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Another loophole is closing for hedge funds regardless of tax reform.
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Now all I need is a hedge fund to get started.
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Still, it is too early to count the hedge funds out.
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And the settlement allows him to keep running his hedge fund.
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I pumped in the hedge fund offices and shuttled the milk.
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Mr. Asness co-founded AQR as a hedge fund in 1998.
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Both most recently worked at another hedge fund firm, Crosslink Capital.
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A multibillion-dollar hedge fund is not high on marijuana stocks.
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"The big win was to hedge at that point," he said.
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Among his responsibilities: overseeing the hedge funds that eventually blew up.
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The hedge fund is run by Paul Singer, who supported Sen.
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Bad news has continued for the hedge fund industry this year.
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There's no way to actually hedge it in any meaningful way.
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The hedge fund manager also focused on Continental's problematic business model.
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Instead, he got a job at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
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Many top hedge funds, by contrast, required a $10 million investment.
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Separately, several hedge fund managers added new positions in media companies.
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It's a hedge, a loophole, a way of answering without answering.
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So you've got to position, hedge right, market, stuff like that.
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He saw London refashioned into a playground for hedge fund billionaires.
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Family offices also weren't pleased with their investments in hedge funds.
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Combs was a hedge fund manager before joining Berkshire in 2010.
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Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund investor, qualified for the Dec.
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Hedge funds have been reluctant, historically, to lead shareholder class actions.
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"The ultimate challenge is picking the hedge fund managers," he said.
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At that time, though, hedge funds generated returns of 16.9 percent.
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One way to accomplish this is to use a hedge. If
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The returns also surpassed that of the broader hedge fund industry.
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The affluent town is home to hedge fund and financial firms.
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We may have another battle brewing between billionaire hedge-fund managers.
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Hedge funds and Transcendental Meditation seem to live in opposite realms.
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Some hedge funds were caught holding the bag on this security.
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The hedge fund managers turned out to be undercover FBI agents.
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The hedge fund didn't disclose the size of its current holdings.
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But the bloom may be coming off the hedge fund rose.
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But other major agri business firms have exited their hedge funds.
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We saw him everywhere, in the house, the garden, the hedge.
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Lampert and his hedge fund own about 50 percent of Sears.
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February has also been tough for the hedge fund so far.
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The hedge fund was forced to pay a $400 million settlement.
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"With hedge funds, the upside comes from the bonus," he said.
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The average global hedge fund lost about 1 percent last year.
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The move comes as hedge fund investing is becoming more difficult.
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The fund will short 1,103 VIX futures contracts to hedge itself.
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In the meantime, operators have few ways to hedge their bets.
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Of late, money managers seeking such a hedge have grown markedly.
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The team was ultimately sold to hedge fund manager David Tepper.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Several big hedge fund backers of Apple Inc (AAPL.
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In 2015, Mallory Downing was hustling for a hedge fund job.
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Unconscious biases Hedge funds may fall prey to unconscious biases, too.
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He can't hedge and recover back to his original assignment either.
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Many of the hedge fund managers that have come to the retail market with 40 Act funds are not managing them in the same way, and while performance figures in the opaque hedge fund space are hard to confirm, industry experts say the alt fund returns are in many cases much lower than those of the hedge funds they partially mimic.
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The industry's performance has turned a corner lately, with the average hedge fund rising 0.4 percent this year, beating the slumping Standard & Poor's 500 Index for the first time in years, according to Hedge Fund Research.
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Mnuchin replied that Trump remains committed to closing the loophole for hedge fund managers, but repeatedly avoided adding private equity fund managers into the mix: Steve Mnuchin on the carried interest loophole for hedge funds: pic.twitter.
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Glen Point delivered performance gains of 17.5 percent in the year through October at the same time as macro hedge funds have averaged gains of 2.35 percent, data from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research (HFR) showed.
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Hedge funds narrowly outperformed the market last year, posting a 63 percent annual loss versus the S&P's 4.38 percent retreat including dividends, according to data from Hedge Fund Research and analysis from CNBC's Leslie Picker.
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"More up-and-down markets with a lot of dispersion should be a really good environment for hedge funds," said Judy Posnikoff, a founding partner of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, which invests in hedge funds.
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Hedge funds, too, are bullish about the outlook for distillate prices with winter coming whereas they have rarely been so bearish about gasoline ("Hedge funds to U.S. refiners: produce more diesel, less gasoline", Reuters, July 5).
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Just as other industries are siphoning many of their most promising recruits, their longtime farm team, the Wall Street banks, have curbed their hedge fund-style trading, leaving hedge funds with fewer experienced bodies to poach.
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Chaves previously has been involved in several high-profile securities fraud matters, including an FBI probe into insider trading in the hedge fund industry dubbed "Operation Perfect Hedge" that resulted in dozens of people being charged.
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Such is the momentum for lowering prices that hedge fund data provider Preqin last month reported the average hedge fund launching in 2016 charges just a 1.53 percent management fee and a 19.13 percent performance fee.
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The build up of hedge fund long positions between January and May coincided with rising oil prices but eventually presaged the rally's demise ("Risks rise as hedge funds place record bet on oil", Reuters, May 3).
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And then comedy, when Bobby demonstrates how in danger hedge funds are by having employees hold up black cards in front of their faces to represent the hedge funds that will be gone in 18 months.
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Top hedge funds also ramped up their bets on Amazon as 13 out of 50 biggest hedge funds held significant positions in the e-commerce powerhouse last quarter, up from eight funds in the third quarter.
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Commodity specialists complain the prevalence of high-frequency trading has reached a tipping point, distorting prices and forcing the closure long-established hedge funds ("Data overload: commodity hedge funds close as computers dominate," Reuters, Feb. 12).
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Related columns: "Oil prices tumble after OPEC rollover", Reuters, May 26 "OPEC and hedge funds are trapped in Groundhog Day", Reuters, May 15 "Hedge funds lose faith in OPEC", Reuters, May 2 Editing by David Goodman
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Dan Loeb, who runs the Third Point hedge fund, told clients in a letter in late April that recent months have seen "one of the most catastrophic periods of hedge-fund performance that we can remember".
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The hedge fund that Taylor and Woods ran made headlines with a bearish bet on natural gas in 2015 which earned its investors an 18 percent return during a year when most hedge funds lost money.
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"An increasing number of hedge funds can absolutely handle a succession," said Joseph Burns, head of hedge fund due diligence for iCapital Network, because they are diversified asset managers with venture capital and private investment arms.
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This year the average hedge fund has climbed 1.2 percent through the end of June, data from Hedge Fund Research showed, lagging the broader U.S. stock market Standard & Poor's 500 Index' 7.7 percent gain through July.
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The teachers said New Jersey retirees would have earned $1.1 billion more if trustees had not allocated money to hedge funds, and would have saved $1.6 billion in fees the pension paid to hedge fund managers.
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" It is by the journalist Sebastian Mallaby, an adroit writer who also published a brilliant book on hedge funds several years ago, called "More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.
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Darren Blanton, a Dallas-based investor who had invested with Shkreli's hedge fund, also testified Wednesday that he later learned that the administrator that MSMB Capital purported to employ never actually worked for that hedge fund.
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The build up of hedge fund long positions between January and May coincided with rising oil prices but eventually presaged the rally's demise ("Risks rise as hedge funds place record bet on oil", Reuters, May 3 ).
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The Blackstone Alternative Asset Management arm, which manages $70 billion in hedge fund investments, is a big investor in quant-related hedge fund firms and has put billions of dollars toward these firms in recent years.
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To learn and fight against the effects that hedge funds, banks and corporations have had on the island (very similar to those in Greece and Argentina) people should search for The Hedge Clippers website and Facebook.
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In its latest fund-raising round, the company received $1.25 billion in investments from hedge funds and mutual funds, like Fidelity Investments; Tao Capital, the investment arm of Nicholas Pritzker; and Tiger Global, a hedge fund.
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Ackman said in his letter that his hedge had already paid off prior to his appearance on CNBC and that Pershing had sold most, but not all, of the hedge prior to his interview with Wapner.
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Paulson & Company and Soros Fund Management, two of the best-known global macro hedge funds, which make bets on geopolitical events, lost billions last year according to an annual hedge fund ranking compiled by LCH Investments.
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As he took the stage as host of the annual SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or SALT, this week, Mr. Scaramucci, one of the ultimate hedge fund showmen, had neither a hedge fund nor a White House job.
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A few days after the conference, hedge fund manager and crypto evangelist Michael Novogratz told a hedge fund conference in South Beach that he thinks psychedelic medicine will be the next "short-term" bubble after cannabis.
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The country already has the third-largest hedge-fund industry in Asia Pacific at $19 billion and could soon surpass the larger hedge-fund industries of Hong Kong and Australia, according to a July Preqin report.
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The average hedge fund with an energy-biased strategy rose by just 26 percent in the five months through May, after losing 230 percent in 268, according to figures compiled by Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research.
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"Investors with exposure to UK securities need to think ahead, we can't not hedge prior to the election and assume that we can liquidate positions or sell to hedge ourselves on Friday after the outcome," he said.
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Aurora becomes the latest hedge fund group to find a new parent in the fast changing $3 trillion industry which has been marked by years of lackluster returns coupled with clients' complaints about hedge funds' high fees.
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EPH's assessment of the assets' enterprise value - not accounting for the hedge - is negative, a person familiar with the bid said, adding that EPH had still offered a positive purchase price after taking into account the hedge.
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Simon Savage, director of alternative beta at Man Group, a listed provider of hedge funds, says this is to be expected: alt-beta funds are essentially "very simplified hedge funds", without as much emphasis on mitigating risks.
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Pension funds that devote a portion of their portfolios to speculative trading, often through hedge funds, would be hit, but some pension funds have already stopped using hedge funds because the returns do not justify the costs.
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Hedge funds, on average, are up 953 percent since the start of January, according to research firm Hedge Fund Research, well behind the 6.2 percent gain in the benchmark S&P 500 index over the same time.
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Between the lines: Hedge funds with strong performance during the month saw inflows across asset classes, with the lone exception of multi-asset funds, while hedge funds that lost money broadly saw investors pull out their cash.
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With some of the higher profile cases where there was a bit more money at stake, I think one of my favorites was Sam Israel III, who was a hedge fund manager of Bayou Hedge Fund Group.
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While the hedge fund Elliott Management has chosen not to be the public face of a fight against Dell, it is opposed to the current plan, as are almost all the hedge funds that hold the stock.
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When it comes to hedge funds, that first part is beyond dispute: According to an annual ranking released on Tuesday, the top ten hedge fund managers in the world took home more than $10 billion last year.
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For some time, the concentration of bullish hedge fund positions has been one of the biggest short-term downside risk factors for oil prices ("Risks rise as hedge funds place record bet on oil", Reuters, May 3).
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Brian Moss joined the New York-based hedge fund as a partner earlier this month after spending the last 10 years at Optima Fund Management, which offers institutional and high net-worth investors access to hedge funds.
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The bet on Valeant left Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management with back-to-back double-digit losses in 2015 and 2016 and tarnished his reputation as one of the hedge fund industry's most talented investors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb told investors on Thursday that his $16 billion hedge fund Third Point saw more opportunities in Europe and was positioned to absorb a modest sell-off in U.S. stocks.
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"We are in the first innings of a washout in hedge funds," Daniel S. Loeb, the founder of the hedge fund Third Point, wrote to investors in a recent letter, describing a "catastrophic period" for the industry.
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The average hedge fund had returned slightly more than 4 percent in the year to end-September, industry tracker Hedge Fund Research (HFR) said, less than half that of the FTSE 100 over the same time period.
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A hedge-fund manager, at a benefit in Manhattan, was telling me that he'd made more money buying and selling ether and other cryptocurrencies in the past year than he'd ever made at his old hedge fund.
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For hedge funds, 2016 was the worst year since the height of the financial crisis in 20143 with more than 1,000 shutting down as investors protested poor returns and high fees, data from Hedge Fund Research show.
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The four hedge funds, which include the billionaire Paul E. Singer's NML Capital, were the last major hedge fund investors among a group that declared legal war on Argentina in the United States courts 22014 years ago.
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In the first three months of this year, investors are expected to withdraw $25 billion from hedge funds, according to a Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage Services survey of hedge fund investors representing about $425 billion in investments.
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Investors are expected to withdraw $25 billion from hedge funds in the first three months of this year, according to a Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage Services survey of hedge fund investors representing about $425 billion in investments.
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In the same way two companies might merge, shareholders, or limited partners in a hedge fund, end up holding the same shares in the mutual fund, with the hedge fund contributing portfolio securities to the mutual fund.
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In other hedge fund news: The Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú is planning to sell more than half of his 17 percent stake in The New York Times Company to other investors, including hedge funds, Bloomberg reported.
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"Someone who is concerned about the downside may want to allocate to hedge funds in case there is a big meltdown in the markets," said Tayfun Icten, an analyst with research firm Morningstar, who follows hedge funds.
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"Having faced an extended period of low investor confidence and net capital outflows, the hedge fund industry is now experiencing a renaissance among institutions," Amy Bensted, head of hedge fund products at Preqin, said in a statement.
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Hedge funds made 5.51 percent on average in 2016, compared to losses of 1.12 percent in 2015 and gains of 2.98 percent and 9.13 percent in 2014 and 2013, respectively, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.
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Before the crisis, big banks had proprietary trading desks that made bets on market direction, as well as in-house hedge funds, investments in external hedge funds and co-investments alongside clients in internal private-equity funds.
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At least that was the case in 218.1, when some of Wall Street's brand-name hedge-fund activists underperformed not only their peers but the rest of the hedge-fund industry and the market as a whole.
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"Given that the UK government has yet to trigger Article 50, it is unsurprising that uncertainty still prevails about the wider impact of Brexit on the hedge fund sector," Amy Bensted, head of hedge fund products, said.
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Prosecutors in Manhattan have a history of pursuing major cases over insider trading on Wall Street, famously securing the trial conviction of hedge manager Raj Rajaratnam and a guilty plea from the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors.
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The buyer was John Griffin, the founder of the Blue Ridge Capital hedge fund (no relation to Ken Griffin, another hedge fund manager, who made a record $240 million purchase at 220 Central Park South in January).
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The buyer was John Griffin, the founder of the Blue Ridge Capital hedge fund (no relation to Ken Griffin, another hedge fund manager, who made a record $240 million purchase at 220 Central Park South in January).
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Some 30 percent of hedge funds are bullish about Lyft, the ride-sharing underdog that's going public this week, according to a survey conducted last week of 40 hedge funds by Titan Invest, a portfolio investment app.
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But the real estate mogul is always careful to hedge his bets.
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Its value as a hedge against inflation, at 3%, has diminished too.
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I decided to give up trying to make a big hedge fund.
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But there's a big question right now about hedge funds and Connecticut.
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Buffett separately took aim at hedge funds and the fees they charge.
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Several high profile hedge fund investors are big fans of the stock.
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Valeant has long been one of the hedge fund industry's favorite bets.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager David Einhorn lambasted Tesla Inc (TSLA.
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Started his own hedge fund and invested in two Donald Trump projects.
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We had a couple of big announcements of hedge fund closing down.
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And so obviously Hedge Funds, it's Fund to Funds, it's Private Equities.
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I hang out with hedge fund managers and politicians and famous people.
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Started his own hedge fund and invested in two Donald Trump projects.
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Matthew Stover, CEO of MG Stover, tracks data on crypto hedge funds.
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And then in our hedge fund we're actually long the Chinese operations.
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The hedge fund manager turned retailer has managed last-minute feats before.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn just ended his worst year ever.
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"You can't hedge uncertainty and Washington is giving us uncertainty," said Ader.
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"Running a hedge fund in high school was quite stressful," says Mattox.
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Like other hedge funds, Hoplite had been hobbled by low market volatility.
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One of the stellar performers was the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater.
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Asset manager Fortress' investments span real estate, hedge funds and private equity.
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Hedge funds can also be used to diversify, though they are risky.
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And, so, Value Partners can charge high, hedge-fund-style performance fees.
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London-based hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is having a disastrous year.
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TC: Hedge funds don't mind being locked up for a dozen years?
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Hedge fund clients have balances of close to $200 billion with Deutsche.
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