 | | | | BlueMountain Capital Management on Tuesday said it hired four portfolio managers to build out the hedge fund's new fixed-income strategy focused on relative-value investments in G7 government bonds, U.S. municipal bonds, agency ABS and emerging market debt. | | | | | | (The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) | | | | | | My kids got a great report from the dentist at their last checkup. From the receptionist? Not so much. | | | | | | Over a third of sovereign investors plan to cut their equity exposure over the next three years after a strong run in 2017, citing trade wars, geopolitics and high valuations as headwinds to performance, a study by asset manager Invesco showed. | | | | | | Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's largest pension fund, lost 5.5 trillion yen ($49.7 billion) on its investments in the first quarter as worries about U.S.-China trade friction pushed down stocks in Japan and abroad, the fund said on Friday. | | | | | | Investors played it safe in June, plucking the most cash out of U.S.-based equity funds since the peak of the 2008 global financial crisis as U.S. trade disputes discouraged risk, Lipper data showed on Thursday. | | | | | | Twenty years ago, Seth Goldman succeeded in his years-long quest to find an after-run drink that was tasty, yet low in sugar and calories. | | | | | | U.S. fund investors peeled out of stocks, pulling the most cash since February in the most recent week as global trade tensions vexed markets, Investment Company Institute data showed on Thursday. | | | | | | Two of Europe's leading macro hedge fund investors are backing a machine learning data analytics firm that aims to give traders an edge in picking winning bets across stocks and indexes. | | | | | | (The writer is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) | | | | | |
