George Soros is one of the most successful hedge fund managers ever. While at the helm of the Quantum Fund (founded by Soros and Jim Rogers in the 70s), he generated an average annual return for investors of 30%. Across this ten-part series, I’m taking a look at Soros’ life, trading career, and [...]
This is the final part of a five-part interview with Zeke Ashton Portfolio Manager and founder of Centaur Capital Partners. The interview is part of ValueWalk’s Value Fund Interview Series. Throughout this series, we are publishing weekly interviews with value-oriented hedge funds, and asset managers. All the past interviews in the [...]
WCM Global Growth Limited was up 4.03% for January, just barely missing its benchmark MSCI All County World (ex-Australia) Index, which gained 4.54% for the month. However, WCM has beaten its benchmark looking at the last three, six and 12 months and since inception. The MSCI All Country World [...]
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, scoops etc The $2.6 billion hedge fund achieve this positive performance despite the return of volatility in the third and fourth [...]
The amazing story of Theranos, a company started in 2003 by a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, is told in page-turning detail in a recent book by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. Despite an incredibly distinguished board, leading venture capital investors, raves from a respected Stanford dean and contracts with [...]
Chances are that you’ve thought about starting your own hedge fund. Perhaps you’ve felt an entrepreneurial pull, have an investment strategy in mind, or know a team of people with a similar goal. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etcBelow, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best guides [...]
Our series on bitcoin hedge funds continues below. Updated: December 4 Over the year we’ve tried to keep track of all the developments in the hedge fund -- crypto world. Unfortunately, the industry is developing so rapidly, we’ve almost certainly missed a number of the young sector’s developments. Nonetheless, as [...]
In 2014, the - TIG Securitized Asset Fund, a long/short credit fund launched in October 2012, was recognized as 2013's Best New Fund by Hedge Fund Intelligence's Absolute Return awards. Following this accolade, in 2016 the fund was picked as one of the world's top 100 hedge funds by Barron's beating, [...]
Long / Short hedge fund manager Michael Rothenberg’s Moab Capital had an “uneventful month” in September with “few meaningful movers” in the firm’s overall portfolio.Q3 Hedge Fund LettersAccording to the firm’s September letter to investors, a copy of which has been reviewed by ValueWalk, Moab made 1.21% from its [...]
There have been acquisitions during many activist hedge fund attacks on a corporate target that the "books were being cooked" and the real story was not being told. Now academics Inder Khurana from the University of Missouri, Yinghua Li at Arizona State and Wei Wang at Temple University provide [...]
Hedge funds have been benefiting from exposure to popular stock names, an August 17 Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Trend Monitor survey noted, as their positioning is a net long exposure near 47% as hedge fund portfolio turnover stayed near a record low. Hedge fund short exposure, meanwhile, represents 84% [...]
Q1 2017 Hedge Fund Letters is now up stay tuned for more as we sometimes update these pages even months after the quarter ends (3/31/2017 in this case). Also some hedge fund conferences in Q1 2017 will be profiled here Last updated 7/01/2017 The links are not an endorsement whatsoever nor [...]
Odey Fund Down having a rough year2017 is shaping up to be another terrible year for vocal hedge fund manager Crispin Odey. As we near the halfway mark of the year, the Odey International Fund is down 5.82% year-to-date (according to the fund’s May 31 update) after a loss [...]
Odey Fund Down having a rough year2017 is shaping up to be another terrible year for vocal hedge fund manager Crispin Odey. As we near the halfway mark of the year, the Odey International Fund is down 5.82% year-to-date (according to the fund’s May 31 update) after a loss [...]
Event Driven Hedge Funds are shining according to new data from a prime brokerage unit of a large bank.Hedge funds posted a seventh consecutive month of positive returns in May according to Morgan Stanley’s May 2017 Hedge Fund Recap report.Bridgewater Reveals Uncorrelated Strategy, Volatility & Beta TargetingThe report, which [...]
Jason Dunn, the portfolio manager at value hedge fund White Bison Capital, writes in the firm’s full year 2016 letter to investors that he and his team seek to generate “long term average portfolio returns of 15% or higher, net of fees and expenses, while protecting against the risk [...]
The continued interest in macro strategies is evidence that investors are using the industry not just for its increasing prevalence of quantitative strategies, but for expertise on how to navigate, and preferably to benefit, in a global environment increasingly influenced by major geopolitical themes. Additionally, the industry appears to still [...]
Frank Martin of Hummingbird Partners has a reputation as a cautious investor something that shows through quite clearly in his first-quarter letter to investors. For the first quarter of 2017, Hummingbird produced a return of 1.35% net for investors compared with a gain of 6.1% for the S&P 500. [...]
Article by Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of "Story Investing" Alex Gavrish explains how storytelling skills can improve your chances of landing a job offer from a hedge fund and advance your career as an analyst Some time ago I came across an article on the internet that summarized a talk [...]
Article by Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of "Story Investing" Alex Gavrish explains how storytelling skills can improve your chances of landing a job offer from a hedge fund and advance your career as an analyst Some time ago I came across an article on the internet that summarized a talk [...]
Meet the Super Hedge Fund The investment world has a love-hate relationship with activist hedge funds. Some activist funds have achieved impressive results over the years by shaking up sleepy corporations, extracting results for shareholders and kicking out ineffective management. On the other hand, other activist funds have caused more [...]
According to the latest Hedge Fund Research (HFR) report, one group of hedge fund managers is having a better time of it than the rest of the industry. Female Hedge Fund Managers gained 3.65% in the first two months of February compared to the 2.23% registered by the overall [...]
