The next ten years will bring many changes to the world economy, perhaps the biggest one the relinquishing of first place of the United States to the emerging giant economy of China. The numbers are the GDP in trillions of dollars 1. United States: $14.6 2. China: $10.0 3. Japan: $4.3 4. India: $4.0 5. …
Tag Archive: Japan
Masaru Mastsumoto’s Hayate Atom Investment Returns 0.9%
Former Goldman Sachs trader Masaru Matsumoto’s Japan-focused hedge fund Hayate Atom Investment Co. has returned 0.9% since its start four days after the earthquake and tsunami. According to Matsumoto, the fund began with around $4 million from both domestic and overseas investors on March 15th. The fund has a maximum capacity of 20 billion yen,…
Bears Beware
Bearish Hedge Funds? The figure for bearish hedge fund managers on the S&P 500 (SPY) released by a BarclayHedge and TrimTabs survey plummeted a little this month. February’s stats for “bearish” managers ranked at 40 percent with March being 36 percent, and “the heaviest inflows on record” were recorded in February. No Bears for Barclay…
Ping-Ponging World Stocks
There’s bouncing and then there’s mega-bouncing. It seems like global stocks don’t know which way to turn next and just keep on bouncing around. One minute things are looking great and people are ready to pop open the champagne and at other times it looks like a disaster and depression looms. So what is really…
Computer-Based Hedge Funds and the Japanese Crisis
Some of the largest computer-operated hedge funds in the world have taken a serious hit following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. This strategy was hit the hardest by the disaster. Connecticut’s Graham Capital’s primary $4 billion fund lost $300 million (almost 8%) over the course of two weeks, while their other funds also dropped by…
Hedge Funds Recovering from Japanese Crisis
The crisis in Japan has caused a major slump in the hedge fund industry, but the market seems to be on the verge of salvaging what had the potential to be one of the worst months since 2008. Nikkei, a Japanese firm, still has a 225 index which is 10% lower following the earthquake that…
Japanese Stocks Falling Rapidly
This Tuesday, Japanese stocks dropped 10.6%, recording the worst two-day drop since 1987. The plunge is a direct result of the increasing radiation in Tokyo, and more panic-sales are expected to be led by hedge funds in the near future. The enormity of the selloff left fund managers no choice but to sit back and…
Earthquake and Fighting May Result in 10% Slide in US Stocks
According to Goldman Sachs, the rapidly climbing oil process and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are threatening a 10% slide in U.S. stock by April. Krag ‘Buzz’ Gregory and John Marshall, equity derivatives strategists, stated in a report that Standard & Poor’s 500 Index options reveal that traders believe they have a 6% chance…
Where’s Japan’s Money Going Now?
A few days since Japan’s monstrous earthquake and tsunami, the financial questions are beginning to start. The question is, which direction is the country’s monetary policy going to take? How is it going to deviate from its original plan? Clearly things can’t go on as planned and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recognizes this and…
DE Shaw’s Asian Expansion
The $20 billion global hedge fund DE Shaw plans to expand within Asia during 2011. DE Shaw hopes to attract assets from Japanese pension funds in the coming year. The firm’s Tokyo office is presently led by their Japanese country representative Scott Roney, who runs an office of just two employees. The fund will bring…