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The MFA has urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to improve access to Treasury clearing by making substantive changes to the proposed Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Treasury clearing rules in a comment letter.
TOP STORY: Multi-strategy major Millennium Management and Boston-based systematic global equity manager Arrowstreet Capital are among a number of hedge funds shorting the assets of UK water companies, after a crisis at Thames Water highlighted high debt levels across the industry, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Citadel, the multi-strategy hedge fund major founded by Ken Griffin, and Citadel Securities, his market-making firm, are progressing with plans to build a new 1.8m sq ft skyscraper on New York’s Park Avenue, in partnership with Vornado Realty Trust and Rudin, according to a report by CoStar.
A prolonged rally in Japanese stocks, coupled with an improving Chinese equities market, and surge in AI-related stocks helped Asia-focused hedge funds get off to a strong start to 2024, according to a report by Reuters.
The Financial Stability Board has proposed a new package of measures aimed at helping hedge funds and other non-banking sector investors better cope with with margin and collateral calls in times of market stress, according to a report by Bloomberg.
An increasing proportion of new hedge fund managers are launching with an incentive allocation hurdle, guaranteeing investors a baseline return before the manager earns a performance fee, according to the 2023 edition of the Seward & Kissel New Manager Hedge Fund Study.
Neil Chriss, the Co-Chief investment officer and Chief Executive Officer at Paloma Partners Management Co, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm founded by Donald Sussman, has left the business, according to a report by Pensions & Investments Online.
Hazeltree, a specialist in active treasury and intelligent operations technology for the alternative asset industry, has appointed Paul Gallant as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO). Gallant will be based in New York and report to CEO Stephanie Miller.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm born in 2015 out of Steven Schonfeld’s proprietary trading-firm-turned family office, has still not raised the $3bn it has been looking to raise since late last year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Triton Liquid, a digital assets hedge fund funded and incubated by New York-based VC firm FJ Labs, has set up its global headquarters in Abu Dhabi having received in-principal approval from the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s Financial Services Regulator.

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