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Hedge funds saw an estimated $9.9bn in investor withdrawals during March, a big increase on the $780m seen in February as the industry’s run of net outflows stretched to 22 consecutive months, according to a new report from Nasdaq eVestment.
TOP STORY: Hedge funds advanced in April as equities declined, led by macro strategies, which extended their first quarter gains through the month, and the industry’s largest funds, with the HFRI Macro Asset Weighted Index advancing 2.6%.
Gerald Chua, a Partner and Deputy Portfolio Manager at David Mercurio’s Singapore-based stock-picking hedge fund firm Lauro Asset Management, has joined multi-family office Kamet Capital as a Portfolio Manager, according to a report by Citywire Asia.
BlueCrest Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm-turned family office run by Michael Platt, is planning a 10% increase in the number of its trading teams by the end of this year on the back of returns trouncing many macro hedge fund firms, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Multi-strategy hedge fund firm LMR Partners has bolstered its commodities team to tap into potential investment opportunities from a new oil-based strategy it launched earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A probe by South Korea’s financial regulator into short selling which began last year has so far uncovered an alleged KRW211.2bn ($156m) worth of illegal trading activity by nine unnamed global investment banks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
MFA has submitted a comment letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, making recommendations on how the commission should approach the use of artificial intelligence tools in derivatives markets.
The Asset Management Association of China has published tighter rules for the country’s hedge fund sector, including an increase in the minimum asset threshold as well as new restrictions on the use of derivatives and leverage, according to report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds turned bullish on consumer stocks during the week ending 3 May as the latest economic data, including a softening in the US labour market, and comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell combined to revive bets on interest cuts, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Fidelity Prime Services, the prime brokerage of Fidelity Investments’s institutional trading arm, has appointed Jeffrey Cantafio as Vice President of Business Consulting in New York, where he will report to James Coughlin, Senior Vice President, Prime Services.

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