Sentences with phrase «focused hedge funds»

Investors like CNBC analyst Brian Kelly and cryptocurrency - focused hedge funds spread out their funds across many cryptocurrencies with strong technologies, active developer communities, solid markets, and applicability.

Furthermore, a wave of new digital currency - focused hedge funds has been hitting the cryptocurrency markets this year, which has created further upward pressure on the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Cryptocurrency - focused hedge funds lost an average of 4.6 percent in January, according to data from industry tracker Eurekahedge.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Monday that it hired Justin Schmidt as head of digital asset markets to help clients gain exposure to cryptocurrencies, and cryptocurrency - focused hedge funds have continued to open even amid the market slump earlier this year.

Additionally, two - thirds of China - focused hedge funds saw net inflows last year.

The billionaire co-founded PayPal in 1998, and through Founders, he's taken stakes in prominent companies like SpaceX and crypto - focused hedge funds.

«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.

LONDON, April 20 - British emerging markets - focused hedge fund Onslow Capital Management has closed after a long period of low volatility hit returns and assets fell below a sustainable level, it said in a letter to investors.

That hurt technology - focused hedge fund Coatue Management, which lost about $ 58 million during the day, including more than $ 10 million apiece on Netflix stock and Activision Blizzard (atvi), as well as American Tower Corp. (amt), which sank 6 %.

Prior to that, he was the founder of MSMB Capital Management, a now - defunct healthcare - focused hedge fund that launched in September 2009.

Shkreli ran now - closed MSMB Capital Management, a healthcare - focused hedge fund.

Previous investor and trader at global - macro focused hedge fund, Cedar Lake Capital and was an investor at Goldman Sachs focused across traditional asset classes.

And Third Point said earlier this year that it would launch a Greek - focused hedge fund.

Bernanke, Draghi & Company have awakened the long - sleeping animal spirits in investors, and «Big Money» hedge fund managers and institutional investors are frantically trying to catch up to their benchmarks before the end of the year (according to Barron's, the average equity - focused hedge fund has had a return barely half that of the passive S&P 500 in 2012).

We offer clients several investment strategies such a small - cap focused strategy (Gator Concentrated Small Cap) and a financial services focused hedge fund (Gator Financial Partners.)

The story relates how Zaky went from noted Apple ($ AAPL) analyst to the manager of an Apple - focused hedge fund and newsletter writer.

From 2008 to 2010 Mr. Bland lived in Tokyo, Japan and led the equity research efforts for Steel Partners Japan, the largest Asian equities focused hedge fund at the time.

But, bitcoin prices will not surge until the broader community has adopted a hard fork solution, Tim Enneking, chairman of Crypto Currency Fund, a digital currency - focused hedge fund, told CoinDesk.

«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.

The company first received investments from Coinsiliium, a blockchain accelerator for startups and blockchain focused hedge fund HyperChain Capital.

Ben Axler's Spruce Point Capital Management, a stock - focused hedge fund, has released a new report on Ultimate Software, a tech company that provides cloud - based human resources software.

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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 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.

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.

But even if hedge fund investors have an agenda, «the strongest voices will be the long - term investors» who are primarily focused on the long - term creation of value, said Desjardins Securities analyst Keith Howlett.

Leblanc says hedge fund executives tend to be more focused on short - term results.

(HOUSTON)-- Legendary investor T. Boone Pickens said on Friday he had closed his Dallas - based energy hedge fund after health and financial upsets, the latest oil - focused fund to report setbacks.

This can set you up also for more long term reputation rehabilitation by forcing a focus on Turing as a research and development company — not a pharma hedge fund hybrid.»

The news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.

At all three hedge funds Skowron was appointed to analyze and focus on health - care - related stocks.

Autonomous NEXT recorded a record high of 226 global hedge funds focused on trading cryptocurrencies, up from 110 global hedge funds as of October 18.

Since Bill Ackman joined the board of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) almost three weeks ago, the hedge fund manager has largely been focused on finding a new CEO to replace Mike Pearson, the current chief whom he reportedly helped push out.

The hedge fund manager also focused on Continental's problematic business model.

Hedge funds, which have been viewed as under - regulated for the past decade, were the initial focus of FBI raids.

Germany has made tighter supervision of hedge funds a focus of its G - 8 and European Union presidency and has been agitating for a voluntary code of conduct in light of the rapid expansion of the funds, which carry high risks and are often exempt from regulation.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

Leonard is a former portfolio manager and principal at Brecken Capital LLC, a hedge fund focused on domestic equities.

Prior to joining Cerberus in 2010, he was the Operations Manager for CypressTree Investment Management, focusing on all aspects of CLO and hedge fund operations from 2004 to 2009.

In addition, Chris was a senior member of Makena's Absolute Return investment team, where he focused on hedge fund investments across numerous strategies, including distressed credit, hedged equity, structured credit, specialty finance, macro and reinsurance.

Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, she worked at the Stanford Management Company where she focused on portfolio management and risk analytics as well as hedge fund investing.

There are more than 68 hedge funds focused on cryptocurrencies today, many of them run by people from Wall Street.

My sense is that it is still mainly defined benefit pension plans that are interested in hedge funds and private equity, which are the focus of the Intel case.

In or about 2009, Shkreli founded MSMB Capital Management LP, a hedge fund and private - equity firm focused on healthcare investments («MSMB Capital»).

As to the GDF, the same Plan Description advised Sulyma that the asset mix of the GDF included «domestic and international equity, global bond and short - term investments, hedge funds, private equity, and real assets (e.g. commodities, real estate & natural resource - focused private equity).»

Those who work in SAC's technology and health - care groups may be deemed especially risky: of nine former or current employees linked to insider - trading allegations while at the hedge - fund firm, seven focused on those industries.

But skeptics may be surprised to learn that the majority of hedge fund managers focus on providing capital appreciation with lower volatility than the broad markets.

GuruFocus is a financial blog focused on following top hedge fund managers and institutional investors by looking at SEC filings.

Represented a hedge fund manager in connection with a fund focused on investing in cryptocurrencies and other blockchain - based cryptoassets.

The firm thought it could create a conflict of interest between its mutual fund and hedge fund clients, he said, and «they wanted me focused 100 percent on the funds that they wanted to do.»

Mr. Wander has published several articles on a variety of investment topics, including risk management, asset allocation, the analysis and use of hedge funds, the application of quantitative investment approaches, and other topics focusing on both theoretical and practical investment concepts.