Key market indices S&P 500: 4,186.72 (-0.021%) DJIA: 33,984.93 (+0.009%) HSI: 28,988.60 (+0.16%) STI: 3,212.50 (-0.06%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,779.00 (-7.00) Brent Crude: 66.41 (-0.02%) Bitcoin: 55,001.55 (+2.04%) Hedge Fund Collapse in Sweden Puts Spotlight Back on Quants (link) As one of Sweden’s oldest hedge funds shuts its doors, its chief acknowledges the firm’s…

Key market indices S&P 500: 4,134.94 (-0.68%) DJIA: 33,821.30 (-0.75%) HSI: 28,618.55 (-1.78%) STI: 3,151.85 (-1.26%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,779.00 (+13.00) Brent Crude: 66.10 (-0.71%) Bitcoin: 56,204.93 (+2.87%) AI hedge fund Quantumrock’s flagship volatility strategy off to a winning start in Q1 (link) The Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP) – a systematic equity tail…

Key market indices S&P 500: 4,141.59 (+0.33%) DJIA: 33,677.27 (-0.20%) HSI: 28,843.48 (+1.21%) STI: 3,183.06 (-0.15%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,755.21 (16.74) Brent Crude: 64.12 (+0.25%) Bitcoin: 63,276.76 (+4.38%) Chinese Hedge Fund Jumps 258% After Dumping Ray Dalio’s Strategy (Link) Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center only manages about 500 million yuan ($76 million). When clients…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3768.26 -1.48% DJIA: 30814.27 -0.91% HSI: 28573.86 +2.50% STI: 3004.87 +0.39% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1827.64 -1.13% Brent Crude: 52.11 -0.94% Bitcoin: 35011.91 -8.28% Hedge funds enjoy biggest first-quarter gains in 20 years, as event driven and equity strategies fuel returns (Link) Hedge funds have gained more than 6% in the three-month…

 Key market indices S&P 500: 4,073.94 (-0.097%) DJIA: 33,430.24 (-0.29%) HSI: 28,938.74 (+1.97%) STI: 3,207.63 (-0.07%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,743.24 (+0.86%) Brent Crude: 62.74 (+0.0%) Bitcoin: 58,305.07 (-0.968%) Why the Archegos debacle is raising renewed fears of market excesses (link) This week’s Archegos upheaval – coupled with the still-unfolding Greensill debacle as well as potential…

Key market indices S&P 500: 4019.88 +1.14% DJIA: 33153.22 +0.24% HSI: 28938.74 +2.13% STI: 3181.68 +0.75% Gold Spot $/Oz: 61.25 +0.73% Brent Crude: 61.25 +0.73% Bitcoin: 57460.69 +3.04% Institutional investors add risk assets back into portfolios, says study (Link) A report by the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) and State Street found that investors have gradually deployed some of their accumulated…

Key Market Indices S&P 500: 3,958.55 (-0.32%) DJIA: 33,066.96 (-0.31%) HSI: 28,495.97 (-0.29%) STI: 3,186.15 (-0.15%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,686.09 (-32.34) Brent Crude: 64.29 (+0.23%) Bitcoin: 58,929.89 (+2.64%) Value Quants Take Wall Street by Storm With Best Run Since 2000 (link) “There’s still a huge opportunity for upside in value,” said the chief investment officer…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3974.55 +1.57% DJIA: 33072.89 +1.36% HSI: 28336.43 -2.26% STI: 3157.95 +0.75% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1730.90 -0.80% Brent Crude: 60.80 -1.02% Bitcoin: 55002.00 -4.15% Stocks rise; U.S. futures fall after block trades: markets wrap (Link) Most Asian stocks rose Monday after a record Wall Street close, while U.S. equity futures dipped as traders assessed a…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3909.52 +0.52% DJIA: 32619.48 +0.62% HSI: 27899.61 -0.07% STI: 3141.71 +0.27% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1725.91 -0.06% Brent Crude: 62.45 +1.04% Bitcoin: 52464.70 +0.11% Fear is everywhere in volatility market even as the VIX retreats (Link) The recent decline in the Wall Street fear gauge to pre-virus levels belies the “tension beneath the calm”…

Key Market Indices S&P 500: 3,910.52 (-0.76%) DJIA: 32,423.15 (-0.94%) HSI: 27,997.53 (-1.75%) STI: 3,127.91(-0.12%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,733.63 (-13.60) Brent Crude: 63.91 (-6.58%) Bitcoin: 54,738.57 (-0.76%) Lone Pine Veteran Eisenstein Starts Hedge Fund With $350 Million (link) Vetamer Capital Management, which launched in January, invests in public and private financial-technology companies, which include digital-commerce,…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3913.11 -0.77% DJIA: 32627.98 -0.46% HSI: 28990.94 +0.87% STI: 3134.54 1.27% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1726.96 +1.64% Brent Crude: 61.42 -6.33% Bitcoin: 59171.51 +0.26% Trends in demand for hedge fund strategies (Link) Long/short equity captured 61 per cent of Q1 2021 respondents, the largest share among all strategies, indicating the continued positive change…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3,962.71 (-0.16%) DJIA: 32,825.95 (-0.39%) HSI: 29,000.18 (-0.095%) STI: 3,100.52 (-0.16%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,743.78 (7.66) Brent Crude: 68.22 (-0.25%) Bitcoin: 55,735.95(+2.19%) Hedge Funds Kicked Off 2021 With $49 Billion Sale of Treasuries (link) Hedge funds offloaded the most Treasuries in nine months in January. The Cayman Islands, seen as…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3943.35 +2.64% DJIA: 32778.65 +3.14% HSI: 28739.72 -1.23% STI: 3095.22 +2.70% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1726.96 +1.64% Brent Crude: 65.57 -1.04% Bitcoin: 57353.16 +12.53% 80% of hedge funds see positive performance in February (Link) The global hedge fund business continued its strong start to 2021 with 80% of funds reporting to eVestment seeing positive performance in February,…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3939.34 +1.04% DJIA: 32485.59 +0.58% HSI: 29385.61 +1.65% STI: 3106.01 +0.85% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1727.24 +0.27% Brent Crude: 69.50 -0.27% Bitcoin: 57008.46 +2.44% Hedge funds now front-runners to boost investor returns this year, says Credit Suisse survey (Link) The annual study, quizzing more than 200 institutional investors; collectively representing USD800 of hedge fund investments…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3,875.44 (+1.42%) DJIA: 31,832.74 (0.095%) HSI: 28,835.40 (+0.22%) STI: 3,086.27 (-0.72%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,724.7 (37.25) Brent Crude: 67.46 (-0.09%) Bitcoin: 53,896.75 (+3.09%) Larger hedge funds dominate industry landscape, as 2020 proves to be the “year of outsourcing” (link) The study found that the dispersion in returns between the top…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3841.95 -0.81% DJIA: 31496.31 +1.82% HSI: 29098.29 +0.41% STI: 2,929.71 +2.20% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1698.64 -1.96% Brent Crude: 66.26 +7.69% Bitcoin: 50,191.66 +9.32% 85% of global institutional investors expect private markets to outperform public markets in the long term (Link) 85% of global institutional investors expect private markets to outperform public markets in the long…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3768.47 -1.34% DJIA: 30924.14 -1.11% HSI: 29236.79 -2.15% STI: 3014.78 +0.48% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1693.15 -0.26% Brent Crude: 67.29 +0.82% Bitcoin: 47022.33 -4.80% Spike in bond yields dented some hedge fund February returns (Link) A sharp spike in bond yields last week caught some hedge funds unaware, and saw macro and long-short…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3,870.29 (-0.81%) DJIA: 31,391.52 (-0.46%) HSI: 29,552.73(+1.57%) STI: 2,988.69(+0.51%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $ 1,729.91(0.02) Brent Crude: 62.94 (+0.38%) Bitcoin: 48,618.05 (-2.00%) A $300 Billion Quant Trade Wins in ‘Almost Unbelievable’ Market (link) Quantica Capital, a $750 million Swiss CTA, which is up around 9% so far this year, profits from one…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3,811.15 (-0.48%) DJIA: 30,932.37 (-1.50%) HSI: 29,328.38 (+1.20%) STI: 2,975.11 (+0.88%) Gold Spot $/Oz: $1,738.00 (-34.00) Brent Crude: 65.43 (+1.57%) Bitcoin: 46,236.5 (+1.61%) Paul Singer Warns of Trouble, and Is Eager to Say ‘Told You So’ (link) In his view, the Fed’s current iteration of quantitative easing paired with trillions of…

Key market indices S&P 500: 3829.34 -2.45% DJIA: 31402.01 -1.75% HSI: 31084.94 +1.20% STI: 2920.43 +1.67% Gold Spot $/Oz: 1772.97 +0.14% Brent Crude: 66.59 -0.43% Bitcoin: 47356.21 -6.27% 2021 could be a “breakout year” for hedge funds, says Barclays (Link) Hedge funds could draw between USD10 billion to USD30 billion of projected net inflows from investors, and around…