May, 2015 – As disasters like BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill highlight the many ways a company’s stock price and returns can be damaged, members of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable have seen a significant increase in investor demand for socially responsible investments and believe that firms that fail to respond to such…
April, 2017: When asked if the federal government will legalize marijuana within the next 10 years, 64% of respondents believe it will, while 36% believe it won’t.The alternative investment community is a fan of marijuana –at least from an investment perspective. With marijuana now legal in 26 states and Washington D.C., and having been approved…
NEW YORK, N.Y., March 2, 2017 – The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable announced today its 2017 Board of Directors, officers and Management Committee members. The new Management Committee, along with the NYHFR’s Board of Directors, will continue the organization’s efforts to promote awareness of issues of importance for the alternative investment industry and to…
March, 2017: Despite having a single product that is already being copied by many of its competitors, the stock price of Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, soared 44% in its first day of trading –only to lose much of that value in the days since. Add to that the fact that it has…
March, 2017 – The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable announced today its 2017 Board of Directors, officers and Management Committee members. The new Management Committee, along with the NYHFR’s Board of Directors, will continue the organization’s efforts to promote awareness of issues of importance for the alternative investment industry and to educate its members about…
February, 2017: British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain will trigger Article 50 of the European Union’s Treaty on Lisbon by the end of the month, a move that will officially start the clock on the two year period during which the UK must negotiate the specific conditions for its withdrawal from the…
NEW YORK, NY, January 12, 2018 – With the United States well into its third longest period of economic expansion to date, economists are wondering how long the markets will be able to continue rising and whether or not the seemingly endless surge in the price of Bitcoin indicates that we are in the midst…
January, 2017: Given the hedge fund industry’s lackluster performance in 2016 and the significant amount of hedge fund firms that closed their doors, many institutional investors have been revisiting their allocations to hedge funds. As many investors question whether actively managed investments are worth the management costs associated with them, there has been some rejiggering…
November, 2016 – From the costs of complying with heightened regulations, to the lingering low interest rate environment, hedge funds and private equity funds have found it increasingly difficult to generate strong returns for investors. As a result, the alternative investment community has turned its attention to operational alpha –the use of an integrated front-to-back-end…
With mortgage rates remaining near historic lows and the Federal Reserve having barely inched the federal funds rate up this past December when it made its first rate increase since 2006, investors have been patiently waiting for the point when interest rates finally start moving back up. Click here to read the full article
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