SEC Chair Gary Gensler: “Many hedge funds are receiving the vast majority of their repo financing in the non-centrally cleared market, where haircuts or initial margin requirements are not necessarily applied. This might create greater risk in times of stress”

by Dismal-Jellyfish The Next “Century of Progress”: Remarks before the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Annual Meeting https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/gensler-remarks-isda-051023 Highlights: “Broadly speaking, our proposal would require clearinghouses to ensure that their members bring in all of their repo transactions, both sides …

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Study: Hedge funds making billions from Ukraine turmoil… Experts blame the organizations for exacerbating the food crisis by “betting on hunger”

Ten of the planet’s largest hedge funds made nearly $2 billion from the food-price spike that occurred after the start of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, The Guardian has reported. The British newspaper cited a report by Greenpeace’s investigative journalism …

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Credit Suisse lost $5.5 billion on criminal-run hedge fund, also pleaded guilty in “tuna bond scam” and was convicted in scheme involving cocaine money laundering

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) The failing 167-year-old Swiss usury branch of private central banking known as Credit Suisse is swimming in scandals, many of them horrendously appalling, that date back many years. Despite only just recently capturing headlines for its …

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Office of Financial Research Alert! OFR finds Hedge Fund Activities Can Influence the U.S. Treasury Yield Curve.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog/2022/12/27/hedge-fund-activities-can-influence-the-us-treasury-yield-curve/ The March 2020 stress on the U.S. Treasury market raised questions about the role of hedge funds in the financial system and whether their activities can increase systemic risk. Using a sample of regulatory hedge fund data …

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The chief investment officer at the world’s biggest hedge fund says we’re headed for a recession that’s ‘double the normal length’

“We’d expect kind of double the normal length of a recession because the Fed’s not going to be at your back for a long time, and that’s a big deal,” Jensen told Bloomberg on Friday. https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/how-bad-recession-double-normal-length-china-bridgewater-associates-cio/amp/ The Bridgewater co-CIO said …

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Another myth that’s circulating is that hedge funds and institutions are bearish and waiting to buy stocks. However, they were TWICE as bearish in August 2008 and yet still the market crashed in the Fall.

by BoatSurfer600 Baltic Dry Index pic.twitter.com/VnL0W989DD — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) August 18, 2022 “Super 7” certainly not behaving monolithically in latest rally pic.twitter.com/4yTWL7Ksud — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) August 18, 2022 $ndx overbought pic.twitter.com/6YiBAnxCee — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) August …

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Hedge funds are betting against bonds and stocks, net insider selling is higher than it’s been since January. Blackrock CEO selling shares like they are pennies. The 08 parallels are freaky

Net insider selling is higher than it's been since jan22. Are they telling us something? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/EDeVqGu6ld — Rosanna Prestia, MBA (@RosannaInvests) August 7, 2022 Sell everything Hedge funds are betting against bonds and stocks pic.twitter.com/iecVZHxuYC — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) August …

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One of the most prominent crypto hedge funds just defaulted on a $670 million loan

by Boo_Randy That’s gonna leave a mark. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/three-arrows-capital-crypto-hedge-fund-defaults-on-voyager-loan.html Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million. Digital asset brokerage Voyager Digital issued a notice on Monday morning, stating that the fund failed …

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Tiger Global drops 14% in May during the tech sell-off, pushing hedge fund’s YTD losses to over 50%

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/tiger-global-drops-14percent-in-may-during-the-tech-sell-off-pushing-hedge-funds-2022-losses-to-over-50percent.html Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management suffered huge losses in May amid a tech-driven sell-off, making the hedge fund’s tough 2022 even worse. The growth-focused flagship fund at Tiger Global tumbled 14.3% in May, bringing its 2022 losses to over …

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Weighing in on the market trends, former hedge fund manager Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ fame, said in a now-deleted tweet on May 24, that the falling stocks and slowing home sales, remind him of 2008.

by Boo_Randy #HousingBubble #housing – "Sellers are slashing prices at levels not seen since before the pandemic amid rapidly cooling market as hedge fund manager of The Big Short fame warns 'It's like watching a plane crash'" https://t.co/6tFPIvWj05 — TraderStef …

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Hedge Fund Tiger Global loses $17Bn YTD, or two-thirds of gains since inception in 2001

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-tiger-global-loses-17-billion-due-to-tech-stock-rout-11652189689 The hedge fund Tiger Global has lost roughly two-thirds of the cumulative gains it has made for investors since its inception in 2001, according to data from an investor that tracks the industry. LCH Investments estimates Tiger Global has …

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ZOG Moves Against Zero Hedge

by Chris Black Wow, I didn’t see this coming. U.S. intelligence officials allege a conservative financial website with a significant U.S. readership is amplifying Kremlin propaganda. Officials said Zero Hedge, with 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled …

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