Liquid Alternatives News

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.

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.

A Danish court has sentenced Briton Sanjay Shah, founder of hedge fund Solo Capital Partners, to 12 years in prison for orchestrating a $1.3bn fraud scheme, marking one of the harshest sentences for tax fraud in the country’s history, according to a report by Reuters.

Dan Loeb’s hedge fund, Third Point, is actively evaluating “credible strategic options” to address a significant discount between its share price and the value of its underlying assets amid pressure from activist investors, according to a report by CityAM.

The number of new hedge fund launches is expected to fall to its lowest level in 24 years this year, with data from the first three quarters of the year revealing that only 123 funds were launched globally buy the end of September, according to a report by Reuters,

Quantitative hedge fund Seven Eight Capital, the quantitative hedge fund firm spun out of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors just a year ago, is winding down operations after facing significant investor redemptions, according to a report by Business Insider.

New research by Beacon Platform, a fintech focused on solutions for quant developers, shows that most hedge funds are spending too much time and manual effort on some important risk management processes, and are willing to switch software vendors to improve the situation.