Managed futures are lowest in return
Managed futures are delivering the worst performance of all alternative investment classes.
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For all asset classes
Managed futures are delivering the worst performance of all alternative investment classes.
Emerging market ETFs gained a capital inflow of $109 million during this year. While they lost $13.9 billion in the first two months of 2014, investors are returning to exchange traded products investing in emerging markets.
Deutsche Bank and Barclays helped 13 hedge funds to avoid paying billions of taxes during a 15 year period, says a US Senate’s subcommittee investigation.
Beside returns close or even below market benchmarks, institutional investors are still willing to allocate money towards hedge funds.
Short ETFs, or inverse or bear ETFs, are exchange traded products that hold a short position in an underlying index. They profit if the index declines in price.
A timeline of the Argentina debt crisis including the most important dates as well as some background information and possible outcomes and their effects.
The SEC is investigating in 44 investment firms due to a possible violation of insider trading laws concerning the purchase of shares of health insurances before a government announcement in April 2013.
A short roundup of what institutional investors and asset managers have been investing in and divesting from during the last months.
Investors look for a more institutional business model of hedge funds. According to a Deutsche Bank study, hedge funds will face “challenges in regulatory, reputational, business and operational risks, in addition to delivering returns”.
After negative performance of hedge funds in March and April, average hedge fund performance in May was at 1.00%. Event driven strategies performed best with 2.66%.
Blackstone, today’s largest investor in hedge funds already, is going to manage an own hedge fund for the first time.
Despite the bullish stock market in the last five years and concerns about the valuation of equity, ETFs investing in equities were the most popular ones among all ETFs.
As the US Department for Commerce stated yesterday (June 25, 2014) the US GDP fell by three percent during the first quarter of 2014.
After reaching an all time high in April already, the value of total assets managed by hedge funds increases in May again.
Hedge funds got more bullish on sugar before prices climbed to the highest since October as dry weather threatened supply from India to Brazil.
US hedge funds have been under stealthy attacks from cyber-criminals intent on intercepting trading strategies in order to profit from front-running and other illicit maneuvers.
Inflation is finally happening, and the Fed will end up being behind the curve.
A decade ago, investors were still trying to figure out how to use the first bond ETFs. Three iShares Treasury ETFs and one iShares investment-grade ETF launched in July 2002. Now there are more than 265 bond ETFs and assets exceed $275 billion.
Investors increased requests to pull money out of hedge funds in June as they adjust positions before the end of the quarter, according to data released on Thursday.
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said that he is expecting strong economic data for the second half of this year.