Sentences with phrase «many hedge funds»

Typhon Capital was one of the first traditional hedge funds to dive into the market for digital currencies.

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

Investors and hedge funds were freaked out last year when the price for Arabica beans shot through the roof, thanks to a drought in Brazil.

While private equity has not suffered the embarrassment of the hedge fund industry, which has trailed the market since the start of 2009, the evidence suggests that PE now provides outsize rewards only to its managers.

But it could also mean a windfall for partners in private - equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, unless Congress can figure out a way to block them from taking advantage of the new rate.

Andurand, who runs oil hedge fund Andurand Capital Management LLP, wrote in a string of tweets on Sunday that companies may be less willing to risk investment in long term oil projects because of low crude barrel prices and a predicted peak in electric vehicle demand.

Hedge fund managers forked over $ 2,500 per year or $ 250 per issue for what she called the Footnoted Pro service.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

The term «shadow banking» encompasses a huge range of financial activities and organizations — everything from hedge funds to credit unions.

As with hedge funds, early returns were achieved by a pioneer group with apparently exceptional talent.

The hedge fund, founded by Barry Rosenstein, is putting more pressure on the grocer's management to turn around slow growth.

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

The ultra-wealthy are allocating more of their money to equities and less to hedge funds and real estate, a survey found.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

Still, the filings offer a glimpse into what hedge fund managers saw as investment opportunities.

(Private equity firms and hedge fund managers also use the so - called «2 and 20» model.)

Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive and hedge fund manager, made the sales in May, according to the transaction report, which was released by the Treasury Department.

Strengthen Dodd - Frank banking regulations and crack down on Wall Street's «shadow banking system,» which Clinton describes as letting hedge funds and high - frequency traders profit disproportionately to every day investors.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

The surge came as the billionaire cryptocurrency investor Mike Novogratz, a former hedge fund manager on Wall Street, reversed his bearish prediction on Ethereum.

Sonnenshein spends much of his time these days with banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, and endowments, pitching them not only on his firm's eight different crypto - funds but also on how allocating a portion of an investor's portfolio to crypto can have a meaningful influence.

The hedge funds» focus on Sainsbury's has been mirrored elsewhere in the retail sector in recent months, with Marks & Spencer, Ocado and WM Morrison Supermarkets all seeing strong demand to short.

The U.S. hedge fund industry was also virtually silent on the immigration restrictions.

He is among the only folks from the traditional hedge fund world to dive into crypto, most notably following the lead of Mike Novogratz, a former portfolio manager at Fortress.

The French hedge fund manager, who is known for being bullish on the market, also said that $ 100 per barrel oil will not harm the economy.

April 15 - A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

LONDON, April 30 - A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

By contrast, traders (hedge funds) and small investors are expressing historically high levels of bearish sentiment (both groups are known for following trends and being wrong at turning points).

The annual Sohn conference brings together some of the leading hedge fund managers and investors in the world to talk about their top market picks.

The following are some of the hot stocks and sectors in which hedge fund managers either took new positions or exited existing stakes in the first quarter.

The best ideas of some press - shy hedge fund managers who spoke at the 2017 New York Sohn Investment...

A number of hedge funds liquidated their positions.

«If you define it as generating returns that aren't commoditized, that aren't easy, by doing things that others are constrained from doing, then $ 3 trillion is just way too small,» Andrew Feldstein, head of BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, said in reference to the current size of the overall hedge fund industry.

«There's a lot of positive things happening in the Ethereum ecosystem,» added Novogratz, who has recently begun raising money for his new cryptocurrency - focused hedge fund.

A report on the sophisticated and sometimes controversial tactics used by Paul Singer's wildly successful hedge fund Elliott Management.

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

NEW YORK, April 17 - The judge overseeing the $ 1 billion fraud case of defunct New York hedge fund firm Platinum Partners has ordered a separate trial for a defendant planning to argue that Platinum Chief Investment Officer Mark Nordlicht and other defendants were guilty as charged.

Unlike a hedge fund manager, individual investors can take their time waiting for a story to play itself out.

The problem, according to the plan's critics, is that financial entities such as private - equity, venture capital and hedge funds are all partnerships whose wealthy partners would see substantial tax savings on large portions of their income unless congressional tax writers find a way to exclude them.

Kate Kelly is a reporter for the New York Times who covers the many facets of Wall Street: personalities, big profits and losses, banks, hedge funds, and regulation.

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

The new regime at the money - losing retailer, backed by a hedge fund, may have had more in mind than just changing the optics around a brand best known for its sexually provocative — some would say sleazy — advertising.

CNBC's Leslie Picker takes a look at whether hedge fund titan Steve Cohen is interested in trading outside capital again.

Hedge funds and other money managers cut their combined net long position in the six most important futures and options contracts...

In recent decades, endowments and other institutions have piled into PE, hedge funds, and the like.

Warren Buffett bet hedge funds could not beat S&P index funds over a decade, and it's looking like he was right.

LONDON, April 12 - Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund, reported a 3 percent rise in total assets in the first - quarter after net inflows of $ 4.8 billion more than offset performance losses.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

Elliott Advisors now has over a 6 percent stake in FTSE 100 - listed Whitbread, the hedge fund said in a statement on Saturday.

Ricky Sandler, another prominent hedge fund...