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Systematic hedge funds, which employ algorithms to identify investable market trends, have significantly outperformed other fund strategies during the first quarter of the year, according to a report by MarketGuru.
Hedge funds upped their bets against the yen last month during the week the Bank of Japan announced its decision to up interest rates and bring an end to the world’s last remaining negative-rate regime, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The approval of ten new spot bitcoin ETFs in the United States in January has prompted an upsurge in hedge fund “interest and activities” in cryptocurrency markets, according to a report by Bloomberg citing Max Minton, Asia Pacific Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs.
Starboard Value, the activist hedge fund firm founded in 2002 by Jeffrey Smith and Mark Mitchell, and the largest shareholder in Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp, has nominated three candidates to the board of the Canadian utility company, according to a report by Reuters.
A resurgence of investor interest in natural resources has prompted Kimura Capital, a London-based provider of trade finance credit for commodities, to start a new commodity-focused hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Short seller Russell Clark, who made money for much of the past decade or so by shorting stocks, is considering a comeback two years after shuttering his hedge fund on the back of the longest running bull market in history, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A bet of almost €1bn has been placed against the stock of Telecom Italia by short sellers unimpressed with Chief Executive Officer Pietro Labriola’s plan to cut company debt through an asset sale, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Derivatives and securities exchange network Cboe Global Markets has introduced enhanced margin treatment for cash-settled index options with a new margin relief rule aimed at providing greater capital efficiencies for traders.
Hedge funds continued to provide investors with positive returns in February with funds administered by Citco delivering an overall weighted average return of 2% over the month, to give them a YTD weighted average return of 3.5%.
Ben Hutson has left his position as a Portfolio Manager at Garda Capital Partners, the fixed income-focused hedge fund firm spun out of Black Rivffer Asset Management in 2015, to rejoin Barclays, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

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