Liquid Alternatives News

Qin Xiao, the former Co-Head of Goldman Sachs’ global commodities trading unit, has raised around $1bn from Millennium Management to seed his new hedge fund, Nexus Commodities Capital Management, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged former Jefferies hedge fund manager Jordan Chirico with fraud over the alleged misuse of almost $100m in fund assets tied to a now-bankrupt water-vending machine business, according to a report by Bloomberg. 19.08.2025

Tiger Cub hedge fund Coatue Management, led by Philippe Laffont, built a major new stake in Oracle worth more than $843m, while expanding positions in leading AI names during Q2, according to a report by CNBC citing the firm’s latest 13F filing. 18.09.2025

Goldman Sachs is giving wealthy investors the chance to buy into Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management, one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, with financial commitments of between $1m and $20m, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Denmark’s Orsted A/S faces mounting market pressure after announcing plans to raise more than $9bn via a rights offering – a move Clean Energy Transition CEO Per Lekander says is practically an open call to short the stock, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Erleben Hedgefonds ein Comeback? Fredrik Langenskiöld von UBP spricht im Interview darüber, warum sie ins Portfolio gehören, wie man aus der großen Masse die wenigen interessanten Strategien auswählt sowie über das richtige Maß an Unsicherheit, Transparenz und den Ucits-Rahmen als Gamechanger.

An affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Investment Management has increased its bid for PDV Holding, the US parent of Venezuela-owned refiner Citgo Petroleum, to $8.82bn amid a heated court-supervised auction in Delaware, according to a report by Reuters.

Ryan Foster, a former senior portfolio manager at Millennium Management and ex-Soros credit investor, is launching a new credit hedge fund, Extant Capital, with $200m in seed capital from New Holland Capital, a $6bn alternative investor in external funds.

Renaissance Technologies, the systematic hedge fund firm founded by mathematician and former Cold War code breaker Jim Simons, saw its difficult summer continue in July, as the quant pioneer posted further losses across key strategies, according to a report by Business Insider.

Carl Icahn’s private investment fund posted another quarterly loss in Q2, falling 0.5% and taking year-to-date declines to 8.8%, according to a report by Institutional Investor citing Icahn Enterprises’ latest filing.

Hedge funds are pivoting on energy trades, cutting long-standing bullish positions in oil stocks while easing off shorts in renewables, according to a report by Bloomberg citing new data from alternative investment analytics firm Hazeltree.

Hedge funds kicked off the second half of 2025 on a positive note, building on strong first-half gains as improving sentiment around M&A activity, global trade negotiations and the economic outlook fuelled risk-on positioning across a range of strategies, according to a data from HFR.