 | | | | Investors gravitated toward the higher-quality spectrum of the credit markets this week, as U.S.-based investment-grade corporate bond funds attracted about $374.5 million in net cash, their 14th consecutive week of inflows. | | | | | | Traditional stock-pickers in the hedge fund world have been struggling to justify their expenses and weak returns in recent years, as low-cost algorithmic funds have done better. Now, human managers are starting to embrace the technologies employed by their robot rivals to improve results. | | | | | | Hedge fund manager David Einhorn, whose hedge fund Greenlight Capital suffered double digit losses, is up nearly 19 percent in the first four months of 2019, a person familiar with the numbers said on Tuesday. | | | | | | An activist hedge fund on Tuesday nominated five directors and urged insurance company Argo Group International Holdings Ltd to cut $100 million in expenses, including corporate jets and housing for its chief executive. | | | | | | Small business owners around the country are preparing for a recession, according to a new survey by Bank of America Corp. | | | | | | Europe, long a major destination of investor capital, is losing luster, say prominent bankers and asset managers, who are reducing exposure to the area because of concerns about issues ranging from Brexit to France's "yellow vest" protests. | | | | | | Federal Reserve policymakers have no reason to change U.S. interest rates anytime soon but will startle global markets by resuming rate hikes rather than pivoting to cuts, according to a leading Wall Street money manager. | | | | | | (This April 26 story corrects transposed performance data in sixth paragraph) | | | | | |
