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Hedge funds delivered a moderate performance in July, rising by 1.2% for the month and 6.4% year-to-date (YTD), UBS noted in a Thursday report. Still, hedge funds underperformed both equities and bonds, driven primarily by challenges in macro and relative value strategies. However, directional strategies continued to lead performance, with…
Mutual fund performance has declined over the year, while hedge funds have continued to perform well, Goldman Sachs revealed in a recent report. Specifically, 34% of large-cap mutual funds have outperformed their benchmarks year-to-date, marking a decrease from 50% in May and below the historical average of 38%. Among different…
By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Investors fleeing the market are likely to be sidelined for many months, leaving the field clear for physical players who expect demand in top consumer China and elsewhere to deteriorate over coming months and weigh on prices. A fund buying frenzy, based on an…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are watching quarterly filings on Wednesday to get a glimpse at how some of the world’s biggest money managers were positioned at the end of the second quarter, a period marked by a series of record highs in the that preceded a more recent bout…
MUMBAI (Reuters) -U.S. based short-seller Hindenburg Research in a new report released on Saturday alleged that the chairperson of India’s market regulator Madhabi Puri Buch previously held investments in certain offshore funds that were also used by the Adani group. Buch did not immediately reply to a call and a…
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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – Bill Ackman said his new U.S. listed fund, Pershing Square USA, will be dramatically smaller than the $25 billion people initially said he could raise, citing investors’ general nervousness about the structure and how to invest the cash. Ackman told investors this week there will…
By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese computer-driven “quant” hedge funds suffered heavy losses in the first half of the year, underperforming traditional stocks strategies at home and other popular global fund strategies, data shows. That dismal performance is leading to a reshuffle in the $200 billion industry, prompting…
By Nell Mackenzie, Dhara Ranasinghe and Samuel Indyk (Reuters) – European companies are seeing outsized gains and losses in their shares when they report earnings, a Reuters analysis shows, a trend that has more to do with the growing sway of fast money in the $15 trillion market than with…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – Investment firm Anson Funds Management has amassed a stake in Five9 (NASDAQ:) and is urging the U.S. call center software company to consider a sale, people familiar with the matter said. The investment firm’s move comes on the heels of Five9’s decision last year to…
