Sentences with phrase «hedge fund managers»

Fortress was among the first large hedge fund managers to shutter a large macro strategy in the face of intense volatility last year, closing Michael Novogratz's $ 2.3 billion fund in October after steep losses and redemptions.

Barclays believes 2016 could be the best year on record for gold - related ETFs and other funds, with many big - name hedge fund managers, from Stan Druckenmiller to Paul Singer to Bill Gross, singing the praises of the yellow metal.

With our clients demanding increasing levels of transparency from their hedge fund managers, this acquisition helped us develop a broad platform and set the standard for analyzing and reporting hedge fund risk.

Granted, some hedge fund managers may invest in multiple strategies, but, in the end, an investor is still left with the style of just one manager.

But many hedge fund managers are more concerned with survival.

We believe Australia is home to some outstanding specialised equity hedge fund managers who operate in one of the world's largest pension markets that, for its size, is also one of the world's least efficient.

Hedge fund managers and commodity trading advisers.

We believe that our approach of constructing a portfolio of carefully selected equity hedge fund managers is the most prudent way for investors to gain exposure to this asset class within a traditional investment portfolio.

NWQ has established an office in New York to take advantage of the growing interest in Australian hedge fund managers from US family offices, pension funds and insurers.

According to the just - published 2016 Rich List of the World's Top - Earning Hedge Fund Managers by Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine, eight of the top ten earners fall into the «quant» category, and half of the 25 richest of the year are quants.

When employing the long - short equity strategy, hedge fund managers take a long position in a stock they think will outperform, while shorting stock3 that they believe will underperform.

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.

These Australian equity hedge fund managers employ a variety of absolute return strategies that when combined produce a portfolio that has the ability to deliver positive performance irrespective of whether the equity market is rising or falling.

Indeed, so why would we think hedge fund managers are better qualified to make strategic decisions than boards?

The Fund offers meaningful exposure to the returns generated by Australia's leading equity hedge fund managers combined with the benefits of holding a diversified portfolio of these managers, within a single investment.

Hedge fund managers occasionally use convertible bonds to deploy this strategy.

But the sector may be considered by some hedge fund managers to be overvalued, or showing slowing revenue and earnings growth.

This includes well - established equity hedge fund managers in the Australian market and a number of emerging managers, which are both performance driven and capacity constrained.

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

While the strategies employed by hedge fund managers are diverse, traditional hedge funds typically offer a single manager and a single strategy.

This makes Australia a target rich environment for skilled equity hedge fund managers such as those that selected by NWQ.

OPEC's Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo, who met with hedge fund managers, seemed shocked that many of them had no «basic understanding» of oil and were less savvy than was widely assumed.

I think we should also do away with carried interest exemptions for hedge fund managers.

Professional investors, hedge fund managers, wealthy retirees?

NEW YORK — Wall Street's elite club of hedge fund managers got a bit richer last year, according to an annual ranking published this week.

The top two hedge fund managers made $ 1.7 billion each in 2015, and the top 25 averaged 10 percent more than last...

Julian Robertson Jr. told investors in Q4 2016 that he was pulling out from one of the sixth hedge fund managers to whom he provided seed funding.

The struggles of hedge fund managers Bill Ackman and David Einhorn.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

The HFRI Indices are based on information self - reported by hedge fund managers that decide, on their own, at any time, whether or not they want to provide, or continue to provide, information to HFR Asset Management, LLC (HFR).

In an email he sent Ackman, who is one of the world's best - known hedge fund managers, was a link to Hempton's latest critique of the Canadian drug maker's potential problems, one of the most detailed produced by anyone yet.

The logic is straightforward: When interest rates are rising, there will be wider dispersion of returns across different asset classes, thus creating more trading opportunities for the alpha - capturing hedge fund managers.

The release contains quotes from notable hedge fund managers such as Jim Chanos and John Hempton that call VRX a roll - up.

He also works with a small group of elite hedge fund managers and executives as the managing director of macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm, Greenmantle.

JIM CRAMER is one of America's most recognized and respected investment pros and media personalities, and one of the most successful hedge fund managers in Wall Street history.

I don't have a ton of empirical evidence for that last point, other than the fact that hedge fund managers get paid a lot, and there is therefore no obvious lack of incentives to manage a hedge fund.

Or, put another way, they want to raise taxes on venture capitalists, private equity execs, hedge fund managers, etc..

Hedge fund managers, once viewed as the rockstars of the financial world, are coming under fire by investors for poor performance.

Institutional Investor just released its annual list of the top - earning hedge fund managers, and six of the top eight are quants, or managers who rely on computer programs to guide their investing.

Former Forbes reporter Lane collaborated with Canadian - British trading tycoon Magnus Greaves to create Doubledown Media in 2003, launching a series of magazines — Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, Private Air — that catered to traders, hedge fund managers and other members of the decade's new financial elite.

But in the past few years, it seems more and more hedge fund managers own more of the same stocks.

Many market experts say that the problem with immediately jumping into an IPO is that insiders, such as hedge fund managers, are buying up shares that push up the price.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

Liggett says hedge fund managers often pour over the lists of stocks that are owned by some of the top hedge fund managers, and choose their positions from there.

As of August, it ranked No. 12 on Goldman's list of the favorite stocks of hedge fund managers.

«Fight for Education» benefited charity Happy Hearts Fund and featured hedge fund managers beating each other up.

Bogle noted that some hedge fund managers earn $ 1 billion a year or more.

Typically, it's hedge fund managers that obtain such high net worth.

A trio of hedge fund managers have secretly directed one of the largest pools of philanthropic capital for years, undetected by design.

On the other hand, his tax plan makes at least a vague reference to eliminating a loophole that benefits private equity and hedge fund managers.