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Derivatives marketplace CME Group saw average daily volume (ADV) hit 29.6m contracts in February, an increase of 5% on the figure reported for February 2023 and the second highest ADV on record for the month.
Balyasny Asset Management, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm co-founded by Dmitry Balyasny, Taylor O’Malley, and Scott Schroeder, has announced three Partner promotions – Portfolio Managers Wade Clark, Max Zaraisky and Steve Brown, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
For International Women’s Day this year, Hedgeweek spoke to Trudi Usher Boardman (pictured), Head of Hedge Funds at Pictet Alternative Advisors, and Hedgeweek’s sister title Private Equity Wire spoke to Meryem Bensaid, a Principal at Blackstone.
Hedge funds surged in February, with technology, AI and cryptocurrency exposures leading broad-based gains across all strategies and extending the industry’s four-month return to 8.75%, the strongest seen since the four-month period ending March 2021.
Hedge funds upped their acquisitions of global equities to the fastest pace seen in since March 2023 last month as sentiment towards stock markets across the world — including the US and Japan — turned more bullish, according to a report by Reuters.
Infini Capital Management, a Hong Kong-based multi-strategy hedge fund firm, has been granted in-principle approval from the Abu Dhabi Financial Services Regulatory Authority to open an office in the Abu Dhabi Global Market.
Total monthly trading volume on the EEX Group global power markets exceeded 1,000 TWh for the first time in February 2024, with 1,067 TWh traded over the month, which represents a 66% increase year-on-year.
Andrew Westgate has left his role as Associate General Counsel, Carbon – Senior Analyst at Texas-based environmental credit hedge fund Clear Sky Advisers to join DLA Piper as a Partner in the law firm’s project & energy practice in New York.
The National Association of Private Fund Managers, Alternative Investment Management Association and Managed Funds Association have challenged two rules recently adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission requiring reporting and public disclosure of securities lending and short selling activity.
Garrett Berg, the President of ExodusPoint Capital Management, the hedge fund firm founded by Millennium Management alumni Michael Gelband and Hyung Lee, has added the role of Chief Operating Officer to his duties, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.

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