Liquid Alternatives News

ActusRay Partners, a Hong Kong-based hedge fund firm backed by the city’s investment major Sun Hung Kai & Co, has more than doubled its assets to over $700m since the start of 2023, despite a challenging environment that has seen many of its peers struggle, according to a report by Reuters.

Brevan Howard, the global macro hedge fund major co-founded by Alan Howard, has upped the headcount in its Abu Dhabi office to 90, just 15 months after opening for business in the emirate, with 50 staff joining in the last seven months alone, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

Rokos Capital Management, the hedge fund run by Brevan Howard Co-Founder Chris Rokos, has extended its year-to-date gains to around 20%, affirming its position as one of the best performing macro firms so far in 2024, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Hedge fund allocations by ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) have fallen to 2% of their investment portfolios from around 12% over the past 16 years, and the asset class is effectively “dead” as an investment opportunity for the super rich, according to a report by CNBC citing Michael Sonnenfeld, Founder and Chairman of Tiger […]

Short bets against the Japanese yen held by hedge funds have reached the second highest level ever seen, even as the currency has fallen to 34-year lows against the US dollar, according to a report by Reuters. The yen has slumped by 11% so far this year to 160.00 per dollar, a level last seen […]

Elliott Investment Management, the activist hedge fund firm led by Paul Singer, holds an approximately $1bn stake in Anglo American, the UK-listed mining company that is the subject of an unsolicited takeover bid from Australia’s BHP Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites a UK regulatory tiling on Friday in revealing that […]

Petrofac had 10.33% of its stocks held short by six investment firms, with Helikon Investments holding the largest position at 2.55% of the company’s equity.

Hedge funds and listed equities were the main drivers behind a 3.3% return in the first three months of the year at Elo, one of Finland’s main occupational pension funds, according to a report by IPE, citing the scheme’s Q1 results.

FRANKFURT – Das Hedgefondskapital hat seinen Höhenflug zum Jahresende fortgesetzt und ist im 1. Quartal 2024 aufgrund der starken Performance und der Zuflüsse von Anlegern auf einen historischen Meilenstein von 4,3 Billionen US-Dollar gestiegen, wie Kenneth J. Heinz, Präsident von HFR, aus dem aktuellen Report seines Hauses berichtet.

The controversial cum-ex trades that allegedly defrauded the Danish tax authorities of £1.4bn were “completely legal”, according to Sanjay Shah, the founder of hedge fund firm Solo Capital Partners and the man accused of masterminding the scheme, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Soaring cocoa prices and and a slump in the Japanese yen are among several financial market trends that have helped computer-driven quant hedge funds to rack up strong returns in the first quarter of the year, according to a report by the Financial Times.

JANA Partners, the activist hedge fund firm founded by Barry Rosenstein, has written a letter to Wolfspeed, the world’s largest manufacturer of silicon carbide, to consider all options for improving shareholder value including a sale of the company, according to a report by Reuters.

The first sharp dip in US and European stocks this year prompted global hedge funds to up their borrowing to the highest level seen in five years in the week ending 19 April, according to a report by Reuters. The report cites a Goldman Sachs note seen by Reuters as highlighting the increase in leverage […]

Aspect Capital, a London-based quant hedge fund with $7.5bn in AUM, has racked up a 21% return so far in 2024 in its flagship fund on the back of winning bets on currency markets and commodities, according to a report by Bloomberg.