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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.

Global hedge fund industry assets increased for the sixth successive quarter in Q1 2024, hitting a record $4.3tn on the back of strong performance and investor inflows, according to the latest figures from industry data provider HFR.

Hedge funds kicked off 2024 with their “best quarter since the pandemic”, according to data from the Citco group of companies. Equity and multi-strategy funds led the charge, with a weighted average return of 7.3% across all strategies, building on 2023’s momentum. Equity funds topped the charts at 8.49%, followed by multi-strategy at 7.59% and […]

Amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and inflationary problems, hedge funds have turned more bearish on global equities than at any other point so far this year, cutting their long positions and upping short bets, according to a report by Reuters.