© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man stands on an overpass with an electronic board showing Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes in Shanghai By Alwyn Scott and Scott Murdoch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian shares were mixed early Tuesday as global investors shook off worries about a hedge fund defaultRead More →
Anthony Scaramucci’s multi-billion-dollar hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital, has submitted a formal application with the United States securities regulator to launch a new Bitcoin (BTC) fund. The Form D for an exempt offering appeared on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website on Monday. The proposal lists “SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund L.P.”Read More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin are seen in this picture illustration By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Total investor inflows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit $5.6 billion so far this year, up more than 600% from 2019, according to the latest data fromRead More →
Reuters. File photo. A woman walks past JPMorgan Chase Bank in New York’s Times Square. SHANGHAI (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase (N:) will pay $1 billion for full ownership of its China mutual fund business, analysts said in a statement on the Shanghai Union Property Exchange on Tuesday, a priceRead More →
It’s increasingly likely that the Democrats will win the White House and the Senate. For investors, that means it’s time to review the environmental, social and governance (ESG) sector, with an emphasis on “green” stocks that might do well under a Joe Biden presidency. For key insights and stockRead More →
Reuters By Peter Nurse Investing.com – The EUR was in high demand in Europe’s early trading on Wednesday, hitting its highest level in four months after Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard hinted that an even easier monetary policy in the U.S. was needed. The dollar also suffered more broadlyRead More →
The quarter has been stellar, with the Nasdaq COMP, +0.74% in particular on fire, but the Russell 2000 RUT, +0.40% hasn’t been far behind. Russell 2000 — a contender. Our call of the day from Mary Lisanti, president of Lisanti Capital Growth and manager of the Lisanti Small Cap GrowthRead More →
© Reuters. BOSTON (Reuters) – William Ackman’s hedge fund is boasting double-digit gains at a time many portfolios have sunk along with the economy during the coronavirus pandemic, after the billionaire investor plowed cash into a number of companies he already owned and dumped Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway among otherRead More →
The founder of investment firm Wilshire Phoenix, William Herrmann, said his firm’s recently filed U.S. Bitcoin fund notably differs from anything else currently on the U.S. market, based on its Bitcoin price sourcing and involved third parties. In an email exchange with Cointelegraph, Herrmann didn’t mention Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust byRead More →
Alternative investment firm Wilshire Phoenix has filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, for a publicly traded Bitcoin Fund in line with regulation. The registration reads: “The Shares will provide investors with exposure to bitcoin in a manner that is accessible and cost-efficientRead More →
Investors usually must contend with a trade-off between income and growth. Not so with the Reaves Utility Income fund, which has a 6.48% dividend yield and performance that has beaten the S&P 500 Index US:SPX over the past 10 and 15 years. That’s unusual, given that the benchmark index isRead More →
Vanguard, the world’s second-largest index fund manager, has announced the successful completion of the first phase of its blockchain pilot trialing the digitization of asset-backed securities (ABS). The pilot has seen Vanguard partner with a large U.S.-based ABS provider, distributed ledger technology provider Symbiont, and financial institutions BNY Mellon andRead More →
© Reuters. BOSTON (Reuters) – Bow Street LLC is close to having eight directors elected to the board of Mack-Cali Realty Corp (N:), which would give the hedge fund control of the real estate investment trust’s board, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. All votes have not beenRead More →
If you’re an investor who doesn’t want to miss out on the next big trend, you had better pay attention to what’s going on in space. When people think about the space business, they may be excited that on Saturday the U.S. finally regained the ability to send people intoRead More →
Dear Moneyist, My parents, who are now deceased, had a living trust with a provision for creation of a new trust that would allow my brother and I to share the income from that trust during our lifetimes. When we both die, the principal from that trust is to beRead More →
© Reuters. Opioid distributors propose $1 billion legal fee fund – Bloomberg (Reuters) – McKesson Corp (N:), Cardinal Health Inc (N:) and AmerisourceBergen Corp (N:) have proposed paying more than $1 billion in legal fees for states, cities and counties suing over the companies’ handling of opioids, Bloomberg reported onRead More →
© Reuters. Apple Warning Boosts Trade in Chip-Heavy Fund to Two-Year High (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc (NASDAQ:).’s sales warning sent chipmakers tumbling on while spurring a surge in turnover for the industry’s exchange-traded funds. More than 54,000 shares worth about $14 million of the iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF, or SOXX,Read More →
‘Get out of trash. There’s still a lot of money in cash.’ Ray Dalio If there are investors who believe cash is king amid this market bull run, they ought to think again, suggests Ray Dalio. The billionaire founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates said during a CNBC interviewRead More →
© Reuters. Baring Private Equity closes Asia buyout fund at $6.5 billion HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia closed its seventh private equity fund at $6.5 billion, its largest to date, the firm said Tuesday. The fund size exceeded Baring’s initial target by $1 billion andRead More →
The U.S. stock market seems risky now because valuations are rich, as sentiment marches higher. But there’s a fix for that: load up on disliked, cheap value stocks. By many measures, value stocks are lagging growth stocks by almost as much as they ever have in the past several decades. UsuallyRead More →
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) – Andrew Left, who has long targeted companies that he thinks are over-valued through his work at Citron Research, told investors on Monday that his new hedge fund returned 43% after fees in 2019, its first year in business. Left also made a prediction thatRead More →
Gold’s haven appeal amid mounting U.S.-Iran tensions and uncertainty in the Middle East could turn sour following the precious metal’s recent price rally to near seven year highs. “The geopolitical instability is adding fuel to the fire,” said Maria Smirnova, senior portfolio manager at Sprott Asset Management, following a sharpRead More →
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Hedge fund Marshall Wace is betting on Danske Bank (CO:) shares falling after taking a short position in the Danish lender of 0.5% of issued shares, the Danish FSA said on Friday. The hedge fund, co-founded by British financier Paul Marshall, is the first to take aRead More →
In 2011, pioneering venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed called “Why software is eating the world,” introducing his thesis that what we now know as Internet 2.0, an industry of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, would replace the old world of desktop computer hardware. Nearly a decade later, ifRead More →
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) – Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management, backed by Blackstone Group (N:) and billionaire William Ackman, is shutting down as assets have shriveled after two years of poor returns, sources said on Sunday. Richard McGuire, the firm’s founder and portfolio manager, began telling investors ofRead More →
