Liquid Alternatives News

Activist investor Barington Capital Group has built a position in Bill Holdings worth roughly $25m and is urging the business payments firm to explore strategic alternatives, including a potential sale, according to a report by Bloomberg. To a report by hedgeweek. 05.12.2025

The $4tn asset manager is sticking its flag in the private markets kingdom, gearing up for semi-liquid launches ‘in the not-so-distant future’. To a report by citywire. 04.12.2025

The hedge fund industry’s narrative around democratised technology suggests smaller managers should now compete on equal footing with established giants. Allocators aren’t buying it, and their cheque-writing behaviour proves the point. To report by hedgeweek. 04.12.2025

Quantitative firm Two Sigma Investments has rolled out a new hedge fund, the Two Sigma Beacon Fund, designed to tap into rising investor appetite for tax-efficient strategies, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. To a report by Hedgeweek. 04.12.2025

Balyasny Asset Management delivered a 2.5% gain in November, bringing year-to-date performance to 15.3%, according to a report by Reuters. The $31bn multi-strategy manager has been ahead of many of its competitors through the first 10 months of the year. To report by hegdeweek. 03.12.2025

Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund returned 1.4% in November, bringing year-to-date performance to 8.3%, according to a report by Reuters citing people familiar with the matter. To a report by hedgeweek. 02.12.2025

Lauro Asset Management’s David Mercurio has criticised what he called “timid” leadership after Greggs’s shares fell 44% this year, valuing the company at £1.6bn, with almost 10% of the stock is now on loan to short sellers, according to a report by The Sunday Times. Lauro, previously backed by GIC, is one of Greggs’s largest […]

Boaz Weinstein has revived his effort to replace the board of the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, less than a year after shareholders rejected similar proposals from his firm, Saba Capital Management, according to a report by Bloomberg. 28.11.2025

Hedge funds and institutional investors stepped in to buy last week’s market pullback even as outflows from the technology sector hit multi-year lows, according to a report by Investing.com, citing Bank of America’s latest client-flow report. To a report by hedgeweek. 28.11.2025

Catalio Capital, the $2.3bn healthcare-focused investment firm backed by names including KKR and Brevan Howard, has hired Ajay Mantha as a partner within its public-equities business, according to a report by Business Insider. 28.11.2025

Hedge funds ramped up bearish positions on UK domestically focused equities in the run-up to Wednesday’s Budget, according to a report by Reuters citing a Goldman Sachs client note circulated prior to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s statement. To a report by hedgeweek. 27.11.2025

Coatue Management has co-led a $2.3bn Series D financing round in coding-automation company Anysphere, backing its AI programming platform Cursor and pushing the firm’s valuation to roughly $29.3bn, according to a report by Institutional Investor. 27.11.2025

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has raised serious reservations about the viability of the “pod-shop” or multistrat hedge fund model over the long term, telling Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that while it may work for investment management, it is “not a fine way for building a 50-year-old business”. To a report by hedgeweek. 25.11.2025

New York–based hedge fund Engine Capital has begun a proxy contest at UniFirst, aiming to persuade the lead family trustees — who control the US uniform supplier through super-voting shares — to consider a sale of the business, potentially to rival Cintas, according to a report by The Boston Globe. To a report by hedgeweek. […]