$35 billion Brevan Howard has diversified its risk away from its most well-known trader. Billionaire cofounder Alan Howard no longer manages money at the firm.
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Jim Schwartz, head trader at ABR Dynamic Funds, LLC, recently finished reading "Life in the Pits" by Brad Schaeffer, a book about the open outcry trading pits. Both Jim and ABR's co-founders, David Skordal and I, began our careers trading options in the open outcry pits in NYC. At ABR, our messaging often highlights the predictability of human behavior and how it historically leads to predictability in volatility assets. The conclusion of this book (spoiler alert!) discusses the flawed behavior of humans, a constant despite advancements in technology and the speed of information flow. This topic resonates deeply with us, and we wanted to share it with you. Human nature remains unchanged, and humans are still the ones making investment decisions. From "Life in the Pits": "…markets will always be in the end run by flawed, emotional, and often irrational human beings, and so the imprint of those moving money for reasons that do not always have a logic behind them will continue…and therefore so will opportunities to make one’s fortune moving barrels of oil, molecules of natural gas, bushels of wheat and corn, ounces of silver and gold, money itself, or, should one wish to fantasize, frozen concentrated orange juice. Lefevre was right about there being nothing new on Wall Street. Because a market’s underlying driving force, human beings, doesn’t change, even if technology does. Ultimately, a market is the amalgamation of millions of decisions by individuals – for every possible reason, be they grounded in cold logic or fevered emotions – that as a collective expression will push prices this way and that. And, as often as not, no one will truly understand why. That is because people have been, and will always be, the same; brilliant and moronic, frugal and greedy, educated and ignorant. And the cowboy in them will continue to be drawn to the business that is the essence of capitalism stripped naked and raw. They will yearn to answer the simple question posed at the beginning of every trading day, whether the dealing commences with the banshee wail of a mosh futures pit, or the subdued point and click of the hedge fund manager in his secluded office: “Whaddya think here, up or down today?”
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While there are clear laws and consequences to insider trading, there is one grey area that Wei Wang, Distinguished Professor of Finance at Smith School of Business at Queen's University, recently discovered. When hedge funds serve on the unsecured creditors’ committee (UCC) of firms that are under bankruptcy protection, they are given access to private information about those firms as well as companies with whom they have economic links — and nothing stops them from using this information in other market trades. Learn more about how hedge funds are benefitting from this loophole in my latest for Smith Business Insight:
Hedge Funds Find a Sweet Spot in Distressed Firms | Smith Business Insight
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What is closed-end fund arbitrage? Most investors can invest and redeem money from the funds in their 401k with a few clicks. Unfortunately, not all funds permit this. For some funds, you can only sell your shares of the funds to another investor. Unfortunately, the liquidity of those funds is usually abysmal, and departing investors must choose between selling at a very large discount, or remaining stuck in the funds endlessly. In the last case, the portfolio manager keeps collecting large management fees for years, at the expense of the investors. That's when closed-end fund arbitragers come into the picture. They buy those discounted shares in large quantities and force the fund to liquidate all its assets. The proceeds are then distributed to all the investors, including themselves. The small investors get a much higher value from their fund units through this process than by selling out. Where it becomes difficult: - The funds are not transparent. You may have to guess what the fund contains. The arbitrager takes composition risks. He may be very disappointed in the discovery, and his imperfect hedge may turn very costly. - It may take a long time before you can open the fund. The costs add up. The discount may increase, generating mark-to-market losses. - Through this process, the portfolio managers with plush jobs lose their jobs and their stable income, and so they fight tooth and nail. Very often, the arbitrager must force change by taking over the management board of the fund or going to court. All this costs money and may not be fruitful. - The large companies (managing many of those funds) are putting poison pills or legal artifacts to prevent those activists from gaining control. Boaz Weinstein is one of those arbitragers. He is going after those big boys. And, what a surprise, not everybody likes his trading activities. #ClosedEndFunds #Arbitrage #FinancialMarkets #HedgeFunds #Activism #Litigation #Redemption Navesink International (https://lnkd.in/eq8vGgP) is the home of the best industry experts related to financial markets.
Hedge Fund Titan Boaz Weinstein Gears Up For a $240 Billion Crusade
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Insights from the Greatest Trader in History… For every quant trader, adhering to Jim Simons' principles ensures long-term profitability - #trading #finance #machinelearning #trader #quantitativefinance #financetips https://lnkd.in/dPhAv9U9
Lessons From the Best Trader of All Time: Jim Simons
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https://lnkd.in/gND9vRDz This is correct with respect what Messrs Canellos & Hong said. It's a win -win. Cases like this can go either way in a jury trial. Juries (even in Manhattan) are nowhere near as sophisticated as we are. Can you imagine trying to explain what a block trade is to a jury of "ordinary people?" FD: not a Stanley Morgan client. Know both of the two former SEC/federal prosecutors quoted in this article. Am quite good at trading issuer GOOS and have been since it went public. Ditto with quite a few other issuers. I love earnings beat/meet/miss trades as they are easy peasy for me.
Morgan Stanley Banker Was ‘Daddy’ to Hedge Fund He Tipped Off, Prosecutors Say - BNN Bloomberg
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The definition of securities dealers is expending to include hedge funds, and they don't like it. In the new definition, you become a dealer - if you are often on both side of the market, or earn revenue from bid-ask spreads, or capture incentives from venues, - unless you have less than $50m in assets, or are a mutual fund, a central bank, a sovereign or an internation financial institution. That very much looks like a definition made for market-making firms! As a result, you must register to the SEC, affiliate to a SRO and comply with all federal rules & regulations. “These measures are common sense,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler. “Congress did not intend for registration and regulatory requirements to apply to some dealers and not to others.” Industry groups are already complaining of increased costs, reduction of liquidity, bad timing (the US government is borrowing), their loss of access to IPOs, their unfair teratment (vs mutual funds)... This new rule adds to new regulations for investor disclosures, short selling and activist investments. A previous version of the rule would have included 16 private funds (the hedge funds that do not have to register). This new version would include 43 of them, so the SEC is also putting oversights onto the least regulated part of teh alternative industry. #HedgeFunds #PrivateFunds #MarketMaking #Bonds #Govies #FinancialMarkets #Regulation Navesink International (https://lnkd.in/eq8vGgP) is the home of the best industry experts related to financial markets. The WSJ has a good article too:
SEC tags hedge funds trading Treasuries as ‘dealers’ under new rule change - The TRADE
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Private credit is the hot thing on Wall Street today, and everyone wants a piece. Last year, the headlines were all about private credit firms partnering with banks. This year, it’s about hedge funds increasingly vying to get access to the burgeoning asset class. But, there might be more hurdles of establishing a platform than some of these new entrants realize. Check out the latest with Peter Benson and Anna Russi as we dive in. Full story now in front of the paywall on 9fin: https://lnkd.in/eaWkURSR #privatecredit #hedgefunds
Hedge funds want in on private credit — but are they ready for it?
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One of the problems with asking an older person, “How are you doing?” is that there is a risk that the target of the question will take up a statistically meaningful part of your life in telling you. (Obviously, Joe Biden is an outlier in this phenomenon.) Never mind. The very excellent Hedgeweek has provided this invaluable article so that you don’t have to ask. https://lnkd.in/egFSZ9FG #gold #goldtrading #financialadvisors #familyoffice #wealthadvisor #wealthmanagement #wealthplanning #markets #managedfutures #alternativeinvestments #alternativeassets #hedgefunds #allocators #fx #fxtrading #fxmarkets #goldfunds #banks #dollar #investing #investmentfunds #investmentmanagement #investment #trendfollowing #centralbanks #currency #currencies #currencytrading #cta #currencymarket #structuredproducts #ETF #GLD #structurednotes #AMC #activelymanagedcertificates #portfoliomanagement #activelymanagedfunds #goldfunds #raydalio #dalio #bridgewater
Hedge fund launches surge in Q1 as industry assets hit record level - Hedgeweek
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For those of you who don’t know Jim Simon’s was one of the most successful quant investors or all time and the subject of the book “The Man who Solved the Market” by Gregory Zuckerman. The lessons in this article are less about his trading strategies and more about his values.
The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
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Our very own expert, Isaac Wheeler, has been featured in a Risk.net article on "curve steepener trades." Isaac's observations about the market close out the article. For a limited time, the article is available without a subscription. Don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity to gain insights from one of the industry's leading voices. Check it out here: How steepener trades burned hedge funds, and what happened next - https://hubs.la/Q02DrW700 #ThoughtLeadership #Finance #SteepenerTrades #DerivativePath #RiskNet
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