Pantera Capital to launch $100m Initial Coin Offering (ICO) hedge fund... [more]Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Blockchain technology and digital currency-focused investment firm Pantera Capital is planning to launch a $100m hedge fund that is focused in tokens that supports blockchain protocols.
According to
Private Advisors closes debut real assets fund above target... [more]Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Alternative investment firm Private Advisors has closed its first Real Assets Fund on $250 million, beating its target. The fund will invest in small specialist managers and thematic co-investments.
"The natural resource private equity market has evolved dr
Dyal Capital acquires minority interest in $2.5bn credit hedge fund... [more]Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit and special opportunities alternative investment manager, announced today that the firm has entered into a primary transaction with Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman Group. Dyal will become a passive, non-voting minority partner in Ata
Hedge fund increases headcount by 20% after revenues slide by 30%... [more]From eFinancialcareers.com: Arrowgrass Capital Management, the $3.5bn hedge fund set up by former Deutsche Bank bond traders, increased headcount in its London operation by over 20% last year, despite revenues tumbling by 28% over the course of the year.
Arrowgrass, which has just released its
Pantheon examines the shrinking market for public equities... [more]Pantheon has published new research that looks at the phenomenon and causes of shrinking public markets. The number of publicly listed companies in the U.S. has roughly halved since 1996 and the authors of the research, Cullen Wilson and Brian Buenneke, explain why they believe that this trend is li
Manager Profile - Apollo mega-fund includes giant margin for error... [more]From Reuters.com: Private equity's cup runneth over. Apollo Global Management just accumulated the largest single pool of capital earmarked for buyouts, at $23.5 billion. The haul adds to a growing stockpile of dry powder that could make outsized returns harder to come by. With yields so low across
Legal - Martin Shkreli built hedge fund empire on 'lies,' prosecutor says at trial start... [more]From NBCNews.com: A federal prosecutor has told jurors in opening statements at the securities fraud trial of a former pharmaceutical company CEO that he built a bogus hedge fund empire on "lies upon lies."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Karthik Srinivasan accused Martin Shkreli on Wednesday of losin
Europe - Swiss hedge fund shrugs off Brexit to reopen London base... [more]From FNLondon.com: A $1.6bn Swiss hedge fund is bucking the Brexit trend and reopening its London office next week after nine years. Amplitude Capital, a systematic managed futures fund, closed its office in the city in 2008 to move to Zug, Switzerland.
Now it has leased an office in St James'
Commodities - Iron ore gets a break - but this hedge fund says it's going lower... [more]From Bloomberg.com: Iron ore's finally catching a break with a jump back into the $60s a ton. But don't bank on the recovery lasting through to the year-end, according to Academia Capital, a commodities and emerging markets-focused hedge fund, which warns that fundamentals will probably dete
News Briefs - Alternative data provider Qineqt said to shut down... [more]Qineqt, a start-up alternative data firm founded by a former trader at SAC Capital Advisors, has shut down, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Founder Nadir Khan, whose New York-based firm began operations in December, did not respond to emails and a phone call seeking comment.
...And Finally - More animals with affordable health care... [more]From Newsoftheweird.com: In April, the annual report of the Association of British Insurers on its members' policies for pet owners noted that among the claims paid were those for a bearded dragon with an abscess, an anorexic Burmese python, a cocker spaniel that swallowed a turkey baster, a cockato
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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Monica Fuentes, a Goldman Sachs alumni who also used to run a $6bn global macro hedge fund at London-based Comac Capital, will now manage O'Brien Investment Group (OBIG)'s first hedge fund. The OBIG Discretionary Global Macro Fund will o..
