Hedge Funds and CTAs

Nascent hedge fund firm Skyline Capital Management is having a soft launch of its maiden hedge fund in November.

Hedge fund Soros Fund Management is on the verge of taking a stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The co-head of the Bank of New York Mellon’s asset management arm is set to join a hedge fund.

Citigroup is mulling whether to take advantage of a loophole in the Volcker rule to hold on to its proprietary traders.

Investors continued to punish troubled hedge fund RAB Capital in the first half, pulling tens of millions of dollars from its fund to widen its pre-tax loss.

Retail hedge fund firm Superfund has launched a new managed futures fund targeting Japanese investors with hopes of raising US$100 million.

The Man Group’s flagship AHL strategy has seen eight employees, including its lead algorithmic trading technologist and an academic hedge fund-replication specialist, leave the firm.

Swiss private bank EFG International suffered a big loss in the first half—almost all of it traceable to a pair of disastrous investments in hedge fund firms.

Investors seeking an easy and liquid way to invest in lithium—without having to worry about storing the highly-reactive and flammable metal—can now do so on the NYSE Arca exchange, thanks to a hedge fund.

Marshall Wace Asset Management has lost a top trader to a start-up boutique brokerage.