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Traders Pile Into Real Estate Names on Easing Bets: Taking Stock
By Natalia Kniazhevich and Norah Mulinda(Bloomberg) — As Wall Street gears up for Federal Reserveinterest-rate cuts as early as September, some traders arealready piling into beaten-down real estate companies — drivingone stock’s returns above technology giant Nvidia Corp. so farin August.After lagging the broader market for months, the S&P 500Real Estate Sector is finally turning […]
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How hedge funds profited from July’s market maelstrom
A ramp-up in short positions against AI-exposed chipmakers helped stock-picking hedge funds ride July’s market maelstrom and deliver positive returns for investors, new industry data show. Equity hedge funds posted a 2.6% monthly return in July, and have now advanced into double-digit territory on a year-to-date basis, surging 10.3% since the start of January, according to […]
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How Investor Behaviors Are Changing The Way Ricky Sandler Invests
The Active to Passive investing shift continues. However, that gives way to opportunity in Fundamental investing. PivotalPath noted a drop in total AUM managed by quant funds, although the firm has also found that allocator interest in this strategy has jumped significantly. “The PivotalPath Equity Quant Index remains far below its AUM levels before performance […]
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Citadel’s Ken Griffin Has Remade the Hedge-Fund Industry, With Himself on Top
Ken Griffin wants visitors to the offices of his $63 billion hedge-fund firm, Citadel, to have no doubt about its standing atop Wall Street. “#1 Most Profitable Hedge Fund Manager of All Time” reads the message emblazoned on elevator doors at its Miami headquarters. It refers to an unofficial industry ranking Citadel scaled following a one-year record […]
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Hedge funds retrench on risk, fearful of increased volatility
With the market volatility last week, many allocators are wondering which hedge fund sectors were most affected. As we shared with Reuters, our risk exposure model indicated losses between 1.5% and 2.5% between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5 for global macro quantitative funds, while hedge funds focused on the technology sector were down between 2.5% […]
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Traders lose billions on big volatility short after stocks rout
A wager that stock markets would stay calm has cost retail traders, hedge funds and pension funds billions after a selloff in global stocks, highlighting the risks of piling into a popular bet. The CBOE VIX index, which tracks the stock market’s expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options, posted its largest-ever intraday jump and […]
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Hedge Funds Bought the Dip in US Stocks on Monday, Goldman Says
As volatility gripped global markets to start the week, hedge funds stepped in to buy the big dip in technology shares, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s prime brokerage data.
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Hedge Funds Were Hit by Tech-Stock Losses Before Latest Selloff
As a stock rout hit markets mid-July, some of the world’s biggest equity hedge funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars from piling into popular tech stocks that led the meltdown.
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Bridgewater says sell-off in Japan’s stocks is overdone
Bridgewater Associates said in a commentary sent to investors on Tuesday that it believes the sell-off in Japan’s equities the previous day was exaggerated and that the stocks remain somewhat attractive, according to two sources familiar with the letter. According to the sources, the $112.5 billion global macro hedge fund wrote that, in their opinion, […]
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Stock-Picking Hedge Funds Post July Losses Amid Tech Selloff
s a stock rout hit markets mid-July, some of the world’s biggest equity hedge funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars from piling into popular tech stocks that
led the meltdown.