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Lombard Odier Investment Managers has added Valentin Petrescou and Didier Anthamatten to its alternative investment subsidiary 1798 Alternatives, where they will launch a Global Macro Absolute Return strategy for institutional and private clients, which is due to go live in Q3 2024
Prosek Partners, an independent marketing and communications agency for financial and professional services, has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, which will be headed up by newly appointed Managing Director and Head of MENA Diana Estupinan.
Global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Hope Jarkowski as Chief Legal Officer, as of 6 May 2024. She succeeds Keir Gumbs, who served in the role until November 2023 before leaving to join financial services firm Edward Jones.
A prolonged stock market retreat could prompt trend-following hedge funds to sell between $20bn and $42bn of US equities over the next month according to report by Reuters citing a note issued by the prime brokerage division at Goldman Sachs.
Balyasny Asset Management, Millennium Management and Point72 Asset Management are among the hedge fund majors that have seen an increase in both AUM and headcount over the past year, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Hedge fund founder Sanjay Shah has been accused of masterminding a “meticulously pre-planned” cum-ex trading scheme that defrauded the Danish government of £1.4bn ($1.7bn) at a civil court case in London brought by Danish tax agency Skat.
Element Capital Management, the global macro hedge fund firm founded by Jeff Talpins, is planning to return around $4bn in external capital to clients as it looks to improve performance and focus on managing its own funds, according to a report by Reuters.
Hong Kong has granted initial conditional approvals to Harvest Global Investments and a partnership between HashKey Capital and Bosera Asset Management (International) for spot-bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Headstart Fund of Funds posted its fourth consecutive double-digit positive annual return in 2023, with back-to-back returns in excess of 20% in both 2022 and 2023 seeing it outperform global equity and bond markets and every hedge fund index on both a one- and two-year basis.
Barington Capital, the fundamental, value-oriented activist hedge fund firm founded in 2000 by James A Mitarotonda, wants Paramount Global to scrap its exclusive merger talks with Skydance Media, according to a report by Reuters.

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