By Hedge Fund Insight staff From Twitter: TCV SE England @TCVSouthEast Amazing day Sunday hedge-planting with our friends at @RBWM, @CarbonAcademy and @WintonCapital. 550 trees! Thanks! Likes 2 11:34 AM – 14 Mar 2016 Eton Wick, England Read more »
Investors in Hedge Funds and Marketers
By Hedge Fund Insight staff A group of hedge fund allocators and feeder fund marketers are all travelling by train to Lausanne for the same conference. The allocators of capital make a big deal out of making sure they each have their tickets, but the marketers report that they just had one of their number […] Read more »
Black Gold? Whither The Price of Oil?
From Investing.com Reproduced with permission. For data, charts and analytics please visit: investing.com/commodities/brent-oil Read more »
Bitcoin Is Coming (or at least Blockchain Technology is)
From Hedge Fund Insight staff Nomura (NRI) to Conduct Proof of Concept for Applying Blockchain Technology to Banking Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, today announced it will develop a proof of concept (PoC) for implementing blockchain*1 technology with banking, in collaboration with SBI Sumishin Net […] Read more »
Hedge Funds Don’t Explode or Implode or Burst
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The wider the audience for the medium the more emotional or even hysterical the headline about hedge funds. A general circulation national newspaper will carry a headline conflating a hedge fund manager with the much derided banker. Specialist hedge fund media like FINalternatives or the Hedge Fund Intelligence titles […] Read more »
Market Shares in Prime Brokerage and Fund Administration of Asian Hedge Funds
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Hedge funds investing in Asia are on a growth trajectory again. The growth of the last few years are an echo of the growth seen pre-Credit Crunch. Of course, as a more mature industry now the rate of growth is lower. There was an explosive growth in the number […] Read more »
America’s Richest Hedge Fund Managers
From Forbes America’s Richest Hedge Fund Managers Read more »
Should Janet Yellen Phone A Friend?
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Author Michael Lewis – Quotation of the Day
By Hedge Fund Insight staff, Michael Lewis, author of “Flash Boys” and “Liar’s Poker”: “It is hard to feel really good about the structure of the US stockmarket. I don’t feel good about the relationship between our financial sector and the rest of society. It is still screwed up. “It is distorted by a […] Read more »
Graphic of the Day – Top & Bottom Hedge Funds on YTD Returns
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