Liquid Alternatives News

Asian and emerging markets hedge funds delivered strong performance into the final quarter of 2025, successfully navigating a sharp correction in cryptocurrency markets as falling interest-rate expectations, improving trade dynamics and easing geopolitical risks buoyed broader investor sentiment. To a report by hedgeweek. 30.12.2025

Brazilian hedge funds are on track to outperform their domestic benchmark for the first time in three years, supported by well-timed interest rate trades and a sharp rally in local equities that has lifted returns across the industry, according to a report by Bloomberg. 31.12.2025

Mecox Capital Partners, a new options-focused hedge fund, will begin trading in January with $50m in assets, backed by prominent investor Peter Borish, a founding partner of Tudor Investment Corp, according to a report by Business Insider. 30.12.2025

Ilex Capital, the hedge fund founded by former Citadel traders Jonas Diedrich and Dave Sutton, sharply increased compensation for its highest-paid individual during its most recent financial year, alongside a significant rise in profits and assets under management, according to a report by Financial News London. To a report by hedgeweek. 30.12.2025

Growth equity firm General Atlantic is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Mexican football, acquiring a significant minority stake in one of the country’s most successful clubs and its flagship stadium, ahead o the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to a report by Bloomberg. 29.12.2025

Michael Hintze’s newly launched hedge fund, Deltroit Asset Management, could face exposure to historic tax liabilities linked to his former firm, CQS, as a closely watched UK Supreme Court case approaches, according to a report by Bloomberg. To a report by hedgeweek. 23.12.2025

Paul Singer’s activist investment hedge fund firm Elliott Investment Management has won a legal battle compelling a Texas-based private equity firm to begin liquidating an oil and gas fund, according to a report by Bloomberg. 22.12.2025

Multi-strategy hedge fund major Citadel has taken a sizeable bearish position against shares of the Magnum Ice Cream Company, just weeks after the business was spun out of consumer goods group Unilever, according to a report by the Financial Times. 22.12.2025

Pershing Square Holdings has agreed to invest up to $1bn in Howard Hughes Holdings to support its acquisition of specialty insurer Vantage Group Holdings, in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $2.1bn, according to a report by Bloomberg. The investment will be made through the purchase of non-voting preferred shares issued by Howard Hughes. […]

New York hedge fund manager Soo Kim has been approached by at least one major Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) shareholder about acquiring all or part of the group’s cable television assets, including CNN, according to a report by the Financial Times citing people familiar with the matter. 18.12.2025

EquiLend, a financial technology, data, and analytics company for the securities finance industry, has made a strategic investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a US-regulated provider of institutional crypto financing and prime brokerage technology, to advance institutional tokenised-asset and digital-markets infrastructure To a report by hedgeweek. 19.12.2025

Calibrate Partners, the London-based hedge fund founded by former Morgan Stanley executive John White, has opened an office in Dubai as part of its international expansion, according to a report by Financial News London citing people familiar with the matter. To a report by hedgeweek. 18.12.2025

Trading Technologies (TT) has acquired OpenGamma, a specialist in derivatives margin analytics, in a move that strengthens TT’s multi-asset platform and expands its offering in margin optimisation and capital efficiency for institutional trading firms. To a report by hedgeweek. 18.12.2025