What’s Hot in Hedge Funds?

By Peter Cooper, GoldSeek Each year ArabianMoney attends the annual Hedge Funds World conference inDubai and this event gives an excellent snapshot of the industry and what the super-bright hedge fund managers are thinking about the best investment classes of the moment. This year the conference was higher in spirits than in the depths of the [...]

BofA Trend Report: Hedge Funds Continue to De-Risk

Market Folly submits: Bank of America Merrill Lynch is out with the newest iteration of its hedge fund monitor report. The bank highlights that hedge funds suffered heavy losses last week and ended January on a weak note. As such, hedge funds were looking to de-risk and BofA notes that global macro was by far [...]

Gold at $2,000 Becomes Inflation-Adjusted Bullseye for ‘80 High

By Pham-Duy Nguyen Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — Gold’s rally to a record means prices are still 53 percent below the 1980 inflation-adjusted peak. While gold rose 19 percent this year to $1,072 an ounce on Oct. 14, consumer prices almost tripled in the past three decades, eroding the metal’s value. Bullion hasn’t kept pace with [...]

Hedge funds buying much more paper than metal

Bearish Big Investors Catch Gold Bug By Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal Large investors, including some who anticipated troubles for the housing and financial sectors, have been buying gold, concerned that moves by governments to shovel money at problem areas could cripple leading currencies. Firms such as Eton Park Capital Management LP, Greenlight Capital [...]