Activist hedge fund Engine Capital has officially launched a proxy battle at ride-hailing firm Lyft, nominating two independent candidates to the company’s board in an effort to push for governance reform and improved shareholder returns, according to a report by Reuters.
Greenlight Capital delivered a strong 8.2% return in Q1 2025, significantly outperforming the broader hedge fund universe and the S&P 500, driven largely by a concentrated bet on gold, according to a report by Reuters citing founder David Einhorn’s latest investor letter.
3iQ Corp (3iQ), a specialist in digital asset investment solutions, is to launch trading in the 3iQ Solana Staking ETF (SOLQ), which numbers SkyBridge Capital among its largest unit holders, on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) on 16 April.
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has disclosed an almost 20% stake in Hertz Global Holdings, prompting a dramatic surge of more than 56% in the car rental company’s share price, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Assets under management at Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund, fell by $5.6bn (£4.2bn) in the first two weeks of April to $167bn, as market volatility hit the asset manager’s strategies, according to a report by City AM.
Digital asset investment products saw $795m in outflows last week, marking a third consecutive week of declines and bringing total outflows since early February to US$7.2bn, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Elliott Investment Management has taken a significant activist position in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), amassing a stake valued at over $1.5bn and making the $70bn hedge fund one of HPE’s largest shareholders, according to a report by Reuters.
Armistice Capital’s flagship hedge fund suffered its steepest monthly loss since inception, plunging 18.4% in March, as volatile markets and steep declines in healthcare and consumer stocks hammered performance, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Man Group’s flagship quant strategies are facing steep losses in 2025, with several funds down double digits year-to-date as heightened market volatility tests the resilience of trend-following models, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds and asset managers are piling into bullish yen positions at a record pace, as renewed US tariffs under President Donald Trump spark a flight to safe-haven assets and cast doubt over the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) tightening trajectory, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Ripple, the San Francisco-based digital asset infrastructure firm, has agreed to acquire Hidden Road, a fast-growing global prime broker, for $1.25bn – marking one of the largest M&A transactions in the digital assets space to date.
Global long-short equity hedge funds underperformed sharply during the recent US stock market surge but showed resilience as markets turned volatile again, according to a report by Reuters citing prime brokerage data from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, has weighed in on the escalating tariff tensions, urging the US to strike a trade agreement with China and shift focus toward fiscal consolidation, according to reports.
Hedge funds including Citadel, Balayasny, and Qube, are accelerating their push to add Asian power market traders lured by surging volatility and structural opportunities in deregulated electricity systems across Japan and Australia, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The US Treasury market – long viewed as the global bedrock of financial safety – is flashing red as hedge funds dump positions en masse, triggering sharp selloffs and prompting fears of a broader liquidity crunch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
