Deer Park Road's flagship STS Master Fund, added 4.71% in December, bringing the fund's total year-to-date performance to 10.3% net of all fees and expenses. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference,... Read More

Alternative investments have grown so much in popularity that the "niche" is essentially no longer a niche. Data from Preqin indicates that 80% of institutional investors are now allocating... 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

Buyback Derangement Syndrome Clifford Asness, Todd Hazelkorn, And Scott Richardson Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic... Read More

If you work at Bridgewater, expect “radical truth” inside the corporate office, where sometimes negative comments about co-workers are videotaped and transparent for everyone in the company to see,... Read More

With tapering possibly concluding by the end of this year, and the first rate hikes possibly coming just six months after that, investors are understandably worried about how their... Read More

As this is written, news broke that Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm with $2.7B under management, led an investment of $25M in Coinbase Inc., a provider... Read More

After a lull in Q2, Canadian investors again resumed plowing money into equity mutual funds during Q3. Balanced funds too saw heavy inflows, though as expected, money continued to... Read More

Morning Market News   Stocks that are expected to trade actively in U.S. markets on Tuesday include: Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP), Verizon... Read More

FORECASTS & TRENDS E-LETTER by Gary D. Halbert August 13, 2019 Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Free-Photos / Pixabay IN THIS ISSUE: China Needs to be Punished, But Are Tariffs the... Read More