Investment advisers are expected to surpass hedge funds as the largest holders of US-listed spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in 2025, according to a report by CoinDesk citing CF Benchmarks.
Hedge fund redemptions remain low but could increase next year, as shown by SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for December which reached 3.54%, up from 2.91% in November.
Pershing Square Holdings, a £11.9bn investment trust managed by Bill Ackman, has doubled its share buyback programme to $200m (£159m) as it seeks to address a persistent 34% discount on its shares, according to a report by Citywire.
Richard Northridge, a former portfolio manager at Citadel, has secured $1bn from Marshall Wace to manage its flagship hedge fund, according to a report by BNN Bloomberg citing an investor letter.
Technology firm Ocado was the most shorted company on the UK stock market as of 16 December, 2024, according to a recent report from GraniteShares, a global issuer of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with over $9bn AUM.
Crypto-focused hedge funds have outperformed the broader hedge fund industry’s 10% growth, achieving strong returns of 46% in November and 76% YTD, with Brevan Howard Asset Management and Galaxy Digital among the biggest winners, according to a report by the Financial Times citing data from Hedge Fund Research.
Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein has called on shareholders of seven UK investment trusts to revamp their boards due to underperformance, proposing his firm, Saba Capital, as replacement manager, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The University of Connecticut’s (UConn) endowment is moving away from hedge funds in favour of a more cost-efficient strategy involving buffer ETFs to manage risk in its $634m portfolio, according to a recent report by BNN Bloomberg.
Asian hedge funds, including Hong Kong-based Monolith Management, are increasing their bets on Chinese tech giants including Xiaomi and Baidu, drawn by AI advancements despite the looming threat of stricter US export controls on advanced chips, according to a Reuters report.
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Five-year-old London-based activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners is shutting down after struggling to grow its investor base and is now returning capital to its external investors, according to the Financial Times, citing co-founder Marco Taricco.
Speculators are increasingly optimistic about gasoline futures, reaching their most bullish stance in eight months amid low prices and looming concerns about supply constraints next year, Bloomberg reports.
The Chicago Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) has announced plans to invest nearly $1bn in hedge funds over the next three years, as part of a bid to address its financial challenges, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.
Hedge funds and leveraged investors have scaled back their bearish positions on US five-year Treasury futures, bringing net short positions to their lowest level since July, according to a report by Reuters citing the latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.
Digital asset investment products saw the largest weekly inflows on record last week totalling $3.85bn, smashing the prior record set just a few weeks ago, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
