Liquid Alternatives News

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is set to introduce physically settled daily natural gas futures across four major European gas hubs, giving trading participants a new way to manage short-term price exposure. To a report by hedgeweek. 29.09.2026

Activist hedge fund Jana Partners is calling on Fiserv to more than double its planned cost savings and adopt technology from Palantir Technologies as it seeks to accelerate the payments company’s transformation, according to a report by Reuters. 29.09.2026

Sharp swings across individual stocks, driven by shifting expectations for artificial intelligence, oil-market upheaval and rising bond yields, are creating renewed opportunities for hedge funds using equity dispersion strategies, according to a report by Bloomberg. 28.09.2026

Hedge funds and other short sellers are watching closely as Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus prepares for a potential $7bn listing on the ASX, with the stock expected to attract positions on both sides of the market once trading begins, according to a report by Capital Brief. 28.09.2026

Millennium Management has received more than $30bn of investor commitments for its latest capital-raising initiative, substantially exceeding the $20bn the multi-strategy hedge fund planned to accept, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. To a report by hedgeweek. 28.09.2026

Taula Capital Management, the hedge fund firm founded by former Millennium portfolio manager Diego Megia, has suffered a 9.4% decline this year up to 18 September following another difficult month for macro traders, according to a report by Bloomberg. 25.09.2026

Hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management is partnering with the UK government to provide capital relief to agricultural lender Oxbury Bank through a synthetic risk transfer covering as much as £500m ($662m) of loans to small and medium-sized farming businesses, according to a report by Bloomberg. 25.09.2026

Japan’s exceptionally tight graduate labour market is intensifying competition among banks, hedge funds and other investment firms seeking to recruit the country’s strongest young talent, according to a report by Bloomberg. 25.09.2026

Hedge funds are beginning to rebuild positions in UK interest-rate markets after a sharp sell-off earlier this month forced traders to unwind a number of sterling rates strategies, according to a report by Risk.net. 23.09.2026

Investor redemption notices at hedge funds administered by SS&C GlobeOp increased in September, although they remained below the level recorded a year earlier, according to the latest reading from the fund administrator’s Forward Redemption Indicator. To a report by hedgeweek. 23.09.2026

Hedge funds have shifted to a net bullish position on the yen for the first time since mid-2025, according to data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), marking a significant change in positioning, according to a report by Bloomberg. 21.09.2026

Hedge funds staged a strong recovery in August, with commodity and global macro strategies leading performance as industry inflows for the year moved to within touching distance of $100bn, according to Citco lates Monthly Hedge Fund Update. To a report by hedgeweek. 17.09.2026