Liquid Alternatives News

Pascal Guttieres, a former UBS Group banker, is launching a new Hong Kong-based hedge fund, Viridian Asset Management, that will bet on a revival in Asia stock sales after volumes last year fell to the lowest seen in a decade, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Arrowpoint Investment Partners, a new Asia-focused hedge fund headed by former Millennium Management Asia Co-CEO Jonathan Xiong, has secured backing from Blackstone ahead of what is expected to be one of the region’s biggest launches of the year.

A group of hedge funds with exposure to mortgage bonds and average gross leverage in excess of 2,000% has attracted the attention of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) over concerns of potential market risk, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Man Group is ditching its GLG brand in the first big change since new CEO Robyn Grew took the helm at the world’s largest listed hedge fund last September, as the firm moves into credit markets, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Record losses last year incurred on the back of bullish bets on oil have prompted Pierre Andurand to reduce the risk in his Commodities Discretionary Enhanced hedge fund investment portfolio, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Hedge funds upped their acquisitions of Chinese stocks to the fastest pace seen in over five years during a three-day period last week, according to a report by Reuters which cites a client note from Goldman Sachs.

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Millennium Management, the multi-strategy major founded by Izzy Englander, has pulled cash from Meridiem Capital Partners, three years after backing the stock-focused hedge fund to the tune of $1.5bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Der Hedgefonds Hudson Executive Capital des früheren JP-Morgan-Managers Douglas L. Braunstein hat seine Beteiligung auf 0,92 von 3,18 Prozent gesenkt, wie aus einer Pflichtmitteilung der Deutschen Bank hervorgeht.

China’s securities regulators have asked a number of hedge fund managers to restrict short selling of stock index futures as part of wider plans to stabilise the country’s declining markets, according to a report by Reuters.