Inflation Expectations And The Politically Polarized Course: Funny How?
Inflation Expectations And The Politically Polarized Course: Funny How? b y Ben Hunt, Salient Partners Henry Hill: You’re a pistol, you’re really funny. You’re really funny. Tommy DeVito: What do you...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Has Small October Recovery
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital returned -14.3% net of fees and expenses for the third quarter of 2015 compared to the S&P 500’s return of -8.2%. Year-to-date the fund is down 17.1% compared to...
View ArticleKen Griffin Has Katy Perry At Citadel Birthday Party
The richest man in Illinois invited pop star Katy Perry to play the 25th anniversary party of his Chicago hedge fund, Citadel. Perry allegedly charges $500,000 per set and played at this year’s Super...
View ArticleCable Car Capital’s Jacob Ma-Weaver On Hunting For Value [Part One]
Cable Car Capital LLC is a San Francisco-based investment adviser founded in September 2013. The asset manager was founded by Jacob Ma-Weaver and uses a concentrated, hedged, value strategy. Jacob was...
View ArticleCable Car Capital’s Jacob Ma-Weaver On Retrophin And Plus500 [Part Two]
Cable Car Capital LLC is a San Francisco-based investment adviser founded in September 2013. The asset manager was founded by Jacob Ma-Weaver and uses a concentrated, hedged, value strategy. Jacob was...
View ArticleQ3 Hedge Fund Trends: Berkshire Hot, Medtronic Not
It’s not secret that hedge funds tend to cluster in several key stocks, which can have adverse effects as we’ve seen with Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int’l, although, this clustering can be useful for...
View ArticleHedge Fund Crowding Costs: Q3 2015
Applying a robust risk model to hedge fund holdings data helps avoid losses and yields profitable opportunities. In this article, we highlight the sectors with the largest Hedge Fund losses due to...
View Article13F Filings For Q3 2015: Hedge Fund Round-Up
Below is a summary of 3Q equity hedge fund holdings from Sept. 30 13F filings by several top funds, with some of the new, added, cut as well as exited positions for each; some stakes may have...
View ArticleConviction And Volume: Measuring The Information Content Of Hedge Fund Trading
Conviction And Volume: Measuring The Information Content Of Hedge Fund Trading by Jonathan Rhinesmith, Scholar At Harward Abstract I provide novel evidence that hedge funds predict and drive the...
View Article“Pharma Bro” Shkreli Buys Wu-Tang Clan Album For $2 Million
Famous rap collective the Wu-Tang Clan came up with a novel way of selling their latest album at auction, and notorious “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli is the lucky buyer, or as DealBreaker puts it “Emo...
View Article101 Formulaic Alphas
101 Formulaic Alphas Zura Kakushadze Quantigic Solutions LLC; Free University of Tbilisi Geoffrey Lauprete WorldQuant LLC Igor Tulchinsky WorldQuant LLC December 9, 2015 Abstract: We present explicit...
View ArticleBest And Worst Hedge Fund Long Stock Pickers
Best And Worst Hedge Fund Long Stock Pickers by AlphaBetaWorks Insights Who’s Been Naughty or Nice The five top hedge fund long stock pickers with long U.S. equity AUM over $3 billion produced 10.7%...
View ArticleHedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis
Hedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis Nicolo Colombo 17 Capital December 22, 2009 Abstract: This paper combines both theoretical evidence on hedge fund activism and empirical results obtained...
View ArticleHedge Fund Compliance Increasingly Focused On Cybersecurity
When it comes to the world’s largest hedge funds, any news regarding their positions on stocks or other asset classes can move the markets, which means cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important....
View ArticleAgecroft Partners’ Top 10 Hedge Fund Industry Trends For 2016
Agecroft Partners’ Top 10 Hedge Fund Industry Trends For 2016 by Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA – Agecroft Partners Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends through their...
View ArticleChina: The Most Dangerous Place To Work In Finance
If you don’t understand what’s going on in China, you’re not alone. Even though the country is constantly in the headlines and will soon overtake the US as the world’s largest economy, China is a black...
View ArticleEmail Shows Concern About Alan Grayson’s Hedge Fund
Email correspondence from June 2015 between Representative Alan Grayson and his campaign manager at the time involves concern among his staff about the political damage Mr. Grayson’s hedge fund could...
View ArticleUBS Sees Capitulation As Hedge fund Net leverage Gets To 2009 Lows
“We see six signs of capitulation flows data,” begins UBS’s weekly European Flow Watch research note sent to clients yesterday. According to the bank’s analysts, the six signs of capitulation in...
View ArticleWill The New Light On Wall Street’s ‘Dark Pools’ Bring Stronger Regulation?
Will The New Light On Wall Street’s ‘Dark Pools’ Bring Stronger Regulation? Peter Conti-Brown and William Black discuss the latest regulatory actions over lapses in high-frequency trading....
View ArticleSynthetic Hedge Funds – Performance And The Replication Success
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