A pair of major New York hedge funds bucked swooning markets and the marginal losses suffered by its average peers with positive performance last month.
Greenlight Capital and Och-Ziff Capital Management both padded their year-to-date returns in August, although the former did so much more than the latter. Greenlight rose 4.1% net of fees.
The financial crisis has taken its toll on Vanity Fair’s annual “New Establishment” rankings. And the list of the 100 most influential people is especially light on alternative investment honchos.
Hedge fund administrator JD Clark & Co. and its parent, UMB Fund Services, have a lot to crow about. The firm said it enjoyed a “surge” in new clients in the first half, and has added more than 50 new employees to help serve them.
Chinese regulators in July eased restrictions on asset managers’ trading of index futures, giving the green light to launch separately-managed account products aimed at high-net-worth investors. The first firm to walk through that new door will be E Fund Management, which plans to launch China’s first officially-registered hedge fund.
Crude oil has broken through levels not seen since 2014 and it appears to be entering a new phase, ending the downward super cycle that took crude from above $100 per barrel to under $30, and entering a phase where both supply and demand are expected to grow.