QFS has prepared for Simone’s pending retirement in recent months by bringing on Larry Goldberg as chief operating officer in May 2016, according to Kevin Cott, CEO of QFS. The firm has also expanded ...

QFS Asset Management, a hedge fund that provides clients with currency, global macro, fixed income and volatility management strategies, this week named Jim Conklin as its new director of research.

QFS has always had the investment flexibility and integrity to act in the best interest of investors which is exactly what they are doing now,” said Stacey Coglan, a GAM spokeswoman, in an e-mail.

It's the third fund closure in a year for QFS, which last winter shut down its global-macro and fixed-income hedge funds. Those funds had lost 11.3 percent and 9.3 percent respectively in 2012 ...

QFS Asset Management is shutting its sole remaining hedge fund and returning nearly $1 billion to clients, making it the latest casualty of increasingly treacherous foreign-exchange markets. The ...