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Société Générale has become the first prime broker to go live on CTM’s new automated tri-party trade matching workflow, which aims to streamline trade communications between hedge funds, prime brokers and executing brokers.
Jain Global, Millennium Management alumnus Bobby Jain’s much-anticipated, multi-strategy hedge fund firm which is gearing up for a $6bn summer launch, has filled another Portfolio Manager slot with the recruitment of Venor Capital Co-CIO Jeff Bersh, according to a report by Business Insider.
The Walt Disney Company says its full slate of 12 directors was elected by a substantial margin over the nominees of activist hedge funds Trian and Blackwells at the entertainment giant’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday.
Latin American digital assets platform Mercado Bitcoin has expanded its listings of Digital Cash stablecoins from ARYZE following the successful launch of eEUR last year with Market participants now also able to purchase and transact in US dollars and British pound sterling with the listing today of eUSD and eGBP.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, the $10bn New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Steven Schonfeld, ended the first quarter with a 6.2% gain for its flagship Strategic Partners fund, according to a report by Reuters.
James Regan has left UBS in London, where he held the position of Co-Head: Global G11 & PM STIR Trading, to take up a Portfolio Manager position in New York at multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund firm Verition Fund Management.
The world’s nine biggest multi-strategy hedge fund firms – Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Verition, Schonfeld, Walleye, Eisler and ExodusPoint – now employ a combined 15,665 people, with almost half that total (7,103) being in investment roles, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Digital asset investment products saw a recovery in sentiment with inflows totalling $862m last week, almost fully recovering the prior week’s record $931m outflows, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Multi-strategy major Citadel saw positive performance across all of its investment strategies in the first quarter of the year, with the firm’s flagship investment vehicle, the Wellington fund, posting a 5.75% gain, according to a report by Reuters.
GoldenTree Asset Management, the $54bn global credit hedge fund firm founded by Steve Tananbaum, has closed its third CLO strategy, GoldenTree Loan Management (GLM) III with commitments of $1.3bn, ahead of its $1bn target.

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