Sentences with phrase «by hedge funds driving»

Fueled by hedge funds driving up rental rates in prestigious West End developments, London pushed past Hong Kong to claim home to the highest - priced...

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Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

After cutting 15 % of his workforce in mid-2016, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones introduced computer - driven tools that would imitate trades by the firm's best managers, according to Bloomberg.

The vast majority of this recent boom in prices is not being driven by VCs but rather by hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors and other sources of non-traditional venture funding.

Four common strategies used by hedge fund managers include: long - short equity, relative value, event driven and global macro.

The Strategic Growth Fund and Strategic International Equity Fund remain tightly hedged here, but it bears repeating that our defensiveness at present is not driven by valuation considerations alone, nor by our broader concerns about underlying debt and mortgage conditions.

Driven by increasing mergers - and - acquisitions volume, as well as activist trends, investors allocated roughly $ 15.7 billion to event - driven hedge funds in the first half of 2014, with the activist - only component garnering $ 9.4 biDriven by increasing mergers - and - acquisitions volume, as well as activist trends, investors allocated roughly $ 15.7 billion to event - driven hedge funds in the first half of 2014, with the activist - only component garnering $ 9.4 bidriven hedge funds in the first half of 2014, with the activist - only component garnering $ 9.4 billion.

And the rate of fund - raising by Uber — and across the start - up landscape — has little precedent, driven by money pouring in from hedge funds, strategic investors and more, and by the willingness of entrepreneurs to embrace the cash.

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

Tanya Beder, a former hedge fund manager and founder of the asset advisory firm SBCC, describes her outlook for 2015: «Right now the global economy is driven by policy, not fundamentals.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, businessman Bob Stefanowski and hedge fund mogul David Stemerman are each conducting a petition drive to try to get onto the primary ballot — they need signatures from 9,600 Republicans by June 12.

Mayor Bloomberg blasted Albany leaders yesterday for trying «to kill the golden goose here» by pushing a tax that would drive hedge funds out of the state — as he...

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

Except in the event of a significant market decline, most of the day - to - day fluctuation in Fund value can be expected to be driven by the difference in performance between the stocks held by the Fund and the indices it uses to hedge (primarily the S&P 500 Index).

I should also note that much of the pullback experienced by Strategic Growth Fund in 2012 was driven by a roughly 7 % lag in our stock holdings relative to the indices we use to hedge, despite the fact that our stock selection approach has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 since the Fund's inception (see the review of Quarterly and Annual Performance on The Funds page for detailed performance data).

As another example, the previously successful hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), was driven into the ground in 1998 as a result of the ripple effect caused by the Russian government's debt default, something the company's computer models could not have predicted.

However, the flow of money into mutual funds and hedge funds is driven by recent performance, so Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

The reason is the prevalence — and profitability of automated trading, a computer - model driven method of trading securities used by pension funds, mutual funds and hedge funds.

Last year's tally of $ 178 million was in part driven by hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin's $ 46.4 million purchase of a 1986 abstract canvas, an auction record for the artist.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

They are behind the data - driven trading programmes used by large investment banks and hedge funds to price and trade securities and analyse risk.

The freezing process — also called cryopreservation — is a benefit offered by Numerai, an AI - driven hedge fund.