Major Hedge Funds Invest in Obscure Oil Company With energy prices on the rise, numerous large hedge funds are rallying to bolster Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco), a struggling North Sea oil and gas company based in Denmark. The hedge funds, which include Taconic Capital, CQS, Caius Capital, Astaris Capital, York Capital and Kite Lake Capital, have built positions in the company whose shares […]
New Cryptocurrency Fund Launching by Former JP Morgan Manager Paul Frost-Smith announced he is starting a new multi-strategy arbitrage fund based in Grand Cayman Island. Frost-Smith was formerly a manager at JP Morgan and Credit Suisse. The fund is called Argentium Chimera and will combine three investment strategies inspired by forex investing but adapted to account for the higher volatility and lower liquidity of […]
Hedge Funds are Broke Records in Q1 2021 This roller coaster seems to be heading in only one direction, and that is up. Hedge Fund Research reported in April that global hedge fund assets rose to a record high of $3.8 trillion in March 2021. Investors showed their confidence in hedge funds by adding about $201 billion to that pool of money during […]
The Year 2021 Looks Bright for Hedge Funds With the first quarter of 2021 behind us it is fair to say that so far hedge funds have seen profits looking up. According to eVestments, February was an especially good month with 80 percent of funds reporting earnings in the black. The average fund was up 4.51%, and the industry as a whole (including […]
All Eyes on Crypto as Market Opens Two weeks after GameStop (NYSE: GME) set the hedge fund sector and the entire finance world on edge with a meteoric spike and equally rapid return to earth in January, all eyes will be on the cryptocurrency sector as Wall Street returns from the President’s Day holiday on Tuesday. Like GameStop did last month, Dogecoin’s […]
Wall Street Braces as Trading Resumes Investors, brokers, fund managers and other finance professionals braced Monday for trading to resume on Wall Street after one of the most tumultuous weeks in the market’s history. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), often referred to as Wall Street’s “fear index,” spiked 45.45 percent in January, closing the month at $33.09 after a week in […]
Covid Vaccine Could Spell Trouble for Gold Markets Vaccines against the Covid-19 virus are predicted to be a bonanza for pharmaceutical giants Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) , Moderna Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Oxford University/AstraZeneca (LON, NASDAQ: AZN), and there is virtually no way to measure the impact the trio of vaccines will have on most global industries. The gold market could be the notable exception. After hitting a […]
Pandemic Conditions Spotlight Human Money Managers In recent years computer-driven quantitative investing has made human decision-makers look outdated and less successful. That is until coronavirus reared its ugly genome. The year 2020 for many people has been one of tragedy and loss, but for flesh and blood stock-pickers the year proved to be quite profitable. It seems that even for the […]
Dalio Endorses Crypto as Alternative to Gold Founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio, a skeptic of bitcoin, has changed his mind and now says cryptocurrency should be a part of a well-balanced investment portfolio. The founder of Bridgewater Associates says that bitcoin “could serve as a diversifier to gold and other such store holds of wealth assets.” Dalio has […]
New Asia Hedge Spun Off from York A new Asia-focused hedge fund with $2.7 billion AUM will be the result of York Capital Management’s move to divest of its hedge fund business. The new fund will be called MY Alpha, to be run by the regional Chief Investment Officer Masahiko Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi is based in Hong Kong. MY Alpha will come to […]
