The bitcoin price reached a new record high above $66,000 this week as talk about regulating cryptocurrencies continues. Meanwhile, the first bitcoin-focused exchange-traded fund started trading. Also this week,... Read More

Hedge fund leverage has been on the rise over the past few months. We have already covered the topic several times in 2013. According to the latest data the... Read More

Stocks of traditional asset management companies have been slow movers compared to the broad market measured by the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) during the year so far. In fact, with the... Read More

Four benchmark indexes could not have come at a better time. When on August 18, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Eurekahedge announced a slew of new benchmark indexes measuring... Read More

George Soros has been a major advocate of Eurobonds, predicting the end of the Eurozone if dramatic action wasn’t taken and even suggesting that Germany should drop the euro... Read More

SocGen Global Quantitative Research analysts Andrew Lapthorne, Rui Antunes, John Carson, Georgios Oikonomou, Michael Suen, Josh Cherian and Yohan Le Jalle report on how their popular screens fared across... Read More

The market has been beset by calm over the past few weeks, Nomura's Chief Economist Richard Koo writes, but under the surface I see a great deal of pent-up... Read More

For the first time since 2007, nominal GDP growth could exceed bond yields in 2015, signifying a powerful positive signal for equities, notes Morgan Stanley. Graham Secker and team at... Read More

For those investing in hedge funds, timing their allocation on a drawdown has always been a difficult if even controversial topic among allocators. Tiiming the investment after the point... Read More

One of the shining female stars of Wall Street is carefully watching her hedge fund’s exposure to healthcare after experiencing the worst quarterly performance in the fund's history. With the... Read More