In the week ending 29 December, 2017, the global hedge fund industry is looking to finish off 2017 strong with November inflows of $10.79 billion, bringing YTD flows to $40.10 billion and overall industry AUM to $3.26 trillion in assets. Steven Cohen's upcoming hedge fund launch

In the week ending 22 December, 2017, APEX Token Fund has launched the world's first tokenised cryptocurrency-focused fund-of-hedge funds; Dan Sundheim is expected to launch a hedge fund next year; Kenanga Investors Bhd recently launched its first artificial intelligence fund Kenanga Glo

In the week ending 15 December, 2017, as a broad Bitcoin Update, the start of bitcoin futures trading on the Cboe exchange was off to a flying start, bringing the cryptocurrency into the mainstream investing. ED&F Man Capital Markets, a $14.2 billion brokerage, has signed up 35 hedge funds, f

In the week ending 08 December, 2017, in FinTech, deVere Group said that the surge in cryptocurrency signals the dawn of fianancial technology era, bu

In the week ending 01 December, 2017, hedge fund portfolio performance of large U.S. public pension funds staged a dramatic comeback in the year ended June 30 after two years sliding downward. Each of the 20

In the week ending 34 November, 2017, IOSCO said that global hedge fund assets rose 24% to $3.2tln through Q3. Gross leverage of the hedge funds reported in the 4th IOSCO S

In the week ending 17 November, 2017, a group of prominent hedge funds have roared back with market-trouncing returns in 2017, with at least 20% performance returns. Alkeon Capital returned 16.23% year-to-date but still sees massive opportunities in tech sector. The Barnegat Fund

In the week ending 10 November, 2017, Opalesque reported how some of the larger family offices have started to enter close partnerships with skilled independent investment managers and

In the week ending 03 November, 2017, reports said that artificial intelligence is transforming financial services across customer support, research and

In the week ending 20 October 2017, the steady performance and investor inflows through 3Q17 lifted total hedge fund assets to a record $3.15tln, an increase of $50bn, making hedge funds popular again while

In the week ending 13 October, 2017, in FinTech, cryptocurrency hedge fund cofounder Matthew Goetz claimed that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like the I

In the week ending 06 October, 2017, in 153 FinTech Initial Coin Offerings, hedge funds are seen as main contributors to these ICOs with Blockchain named as the top hedge

In the week ending 29 September, 2017, Steve Cohen has sent investors documents for the upcoming launch of his new hedge fund, Stamford Harbor Capital; Mike Novogratz is starting a $500 million hedge fund to invest in cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings and related companies; Optima Fund

In the week ending 22 September, 2017, in FinTech, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said he is not a believer in cryptocurrencies and called bitcoin a bubble. Specifically, h

In the week ending 15 September, 2017, in FinTech, hedge funds are hacking blockchains to guide them in their cryptocurrency investments. There are now more t

In the week ending 08 September, 2017, among outlooks, Allianz Global Investors said that geopolitics has now become the number one concern of glob

In the week ending 01 September, 2017, In FinTech, Autonomous NEXT has released a list of 55 cryptocurrency hedge funds, illustrating the mounting interest in the space at a tim

In the week ending 25 August, 2017, a survey said hedge funds would be adopting a bearish attitude in the second half of 2017, despite indications that fundraising an

In the week ending 18 August, 2017, in FinTech, hedge funds are increasingly using "alternative data" data to detect emerging trends; Baillie Gifford has laun

In the week ending 11 August, 2017, in FinTech, hedge funds that are tied to cryptocurrencies are exploding, with over 70 launches in the pipeline. This m

In the week ending 04 August, 2017, Chao Gao, Tim Haight, and Chengdong Yin found in a comprehensive study that funds of hedge funds have significant fund selection ab

In the week ending 28th July, 2017, Enigma has launched Catalyst which aims to see an explosion of new hedge funds focused on cryptocurrency as an asset class;

In the week ending 21 July, 2017, the global trend to shift into alternative assets is gathering pace more institutional investors are turning to private equit

In the week ending 14 July, 2017, in FinTech, a report by Jefferies pointed to a chart from Google Trends as a visualisation how interest in "data science&q

In the week ending 07 July, 2017, a study by AIMA has found that most alternative investment management firms are able to turn a profit and expand with considerably less th

In the week ending 30 June 2017, in FinTech, the 2017 Hedge Fund 100, Institutional Investor's Alpha's 16th-annual ranking of the world's 100-largest hedge funds by assets is dominated by quants. Quantitative hedge funds all saw their assets grew last year, dominating the sector.

In the week ending 23 June, 2017, the number of hedge fund launches in Q1 increased to 189 but was overshadowed by 259 liquidations with the total hedge fund count now at 9,733. In Singapore, Qualgro and Gordian Capital announced the spin out of the QUALGRO ASEAN FUND I, L.P. from the Gordia

In the week ending 16 June, 2017, in FinTech, hedge funds are quietly investing in bitcoin which gained over 180% last year. Most hedge fund managers have not invested in bitcoin, but those who did were some of the best performers, beating the market. Jeffrey Tarrant is betting that a new

In the week ending 09 June 2017, consultant Mercer found that 4.6% more European pensions allocate to hedge funds now compared to one year ago. This is interestingly the largest gr

In the week ending 02 June, 2017, hedge fund icons Paul Singer and Seth Klarman warned about global financial risks. Singer, pointing to the last crisis of 2008, has put dry powde

In the week ending 26 May, 2017, in FinTech, industry experts are predicting that hedge fund investors would soon bet on a machine and not on a man; Guillaume Vidal said that France's

In the week ending 19 May, 2017, Seema Hingorani, a former chief investment officer of New York City's five pension plans, is said to be raising $500m to help five to seven new women-

In the week ending 13 May, 2017, Opalesque reported how Professor Desmond Lun is using cell biology to understand the financial markets. Much like the genes and

In the week ending 05 May, 2017, hedge funds investing in Emerging Asia posted the strongest quarterly performance since 2Q15, benefitting from improving investo

In the week ending 28 April, 2017, Alphabit has announced plans to raise $300m for its newly launched global fund that invests in digital currencies on the back of growing demand for virtual assets that allow for instant, borderless transactions. The market capitalisation of digital currenc

In the week ending 17 April, 2017, hedge fund assets reached $3.07tln in the first quarter of 2017 as the industry sustained its expansion to a third co

In the week ending 14 April, 2017, Alessandra Tocco of JPMorgan Chase said that family offices are back to their historic levels of interest in hedge funds. Fa-mag said it's a

In the week ending 07 April, 2017, a study a study by Peltz International has found that institutional investors will continue to pressure managers

In the week ending 31 March, 2017, a new research has shown that investors allocate more flows to hedge funds whose names exhibit gravitas - defined as a combination of words from geopolitics and economics,

In the week ending 24 March, 2017 it was reported that the number of hedge fund liquidations in 2016 have surpassed the 2009 financial crisis level. For

In the week ending 17 March, 2017, a Seward & Kissel study showed that a rising number of newly launched hedge funds are employing non-equity-based investment strateg

In the week ending 10 March, 2017, Scott Schweighauser, who from 1994 until 2016 has been a key figure at Chicago based hedge fund of funds Aurora, has launched Bore

Reports in the week ending 03 March, 2017, said the fund of hedge funds sector remains in a period of consolidation; the report added that hedge funds inve

In the week ending 24 February, 2017, former Citadel money manager Brandon Haley is gearing up for the biggest hedge fund launch so far this year with $1bn in capital. Philippe Laffont, Louis Bacon, and Steve Cohen, are planning to invest in Ben Melkman's Light Sky Macro; Willis Towers Wa

In the week ending 17 February, 2017, data from eVestment showed that over 70% of hedge funds reported positive performance. Particularly emerging markets did well, returning 3.37

In the week ending 10 February, 2017, KKR and PAAMCO have partnered to launch a new liquid alternatives investment firm by combining PAAMCO and KKR Prisma. Unde

In the week ending 03 February, 2017, computer-based hedge funds have been admitted to a list of the all-time top 20 best performers for the first time. Edmond de Rothschild group's LCH Investments, a fund of hedge funds, gave DE Shaw, Citadel and Two Sigma the ranks 3, 5 and 20 in a me

In the week ending 27 January, 2017, it was reported that in Europe UCITS are beating hedge funds in net capital raising. A joint AIMA-Preqin study has shown that hedge funds

In the week ending 20 January, 2016, in other miscellaneous hedge fund news, the hedge fund fee debate has entered a new round as investors focus on pass-through fee

In the week ending 13 January, 2016, data from Hedge Fund Research showed that the number of hedge fund launches in 2016 is set to be the lowest since 2008 with only 576 new funds in the first three quarters. On the FinTech side, LendingRobot has launched an automated hedge fund to buy cr

In the week ending 06 January 2017, a study a study of mutual fund performance in 2016 by research firm Birinyi Associates runs against the conventional wisdom that size would "k