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April 2024 | This data-led report provides an update on the rebounding hedge fund launch market. With 2024 set to be a historic year for new hedge fund launches, as an unprecedented number of well-pedigreed managers starting up, Hedgeweek selects the Top 20 prospects and analyses the wider environment facing new hedge funds – from ops to fundraising, strategy considerations to performance. Get all the intel, plus insights from the sector’s leading firms, in this exclusive Hedgeweek special report, sponsored by Marex.
- 23/04/2024
Intel
TOP STORY: Global hedge fund industry assets increased for the sixth successive quarter in Q1 2024, hitting a record $4.3tn on the back of strong performance and investor inflows, according to the latest figures from industry data provider HFR.
- 23/04/2024
Intel
Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, saw investors pull more than $1.6bn (£1.29bn) from its funds during the first three months of 2024, its second straight quarter of redemptions following outflows of $300m in Q4 2023, according to the group’s Q1 results.
- 22/04/2024
Intel
A period of poor performance has prompted macro hedge fund major Brevan Howard to embark on a strategic cost cutting exercise which will see the Jersey-headquartered firm axe around 100 traders and middle and back-office staff, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 19/04/2024
Intel
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management and Boston-based systematic global equity manager Arrowstreet Capital are among a number of hedge funds shorting the assets of UK water companies, after a crisis at Thames Water highlighted high debt levels across the industry, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 18/04/2024
Intel
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm born in 2015 out of Steven Schonfeld’s proprietary trading-firm-turned family office, has still not raised the $3bn it has been looking to raise since late last year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 17/04/2024
Intel
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.
- 16/04/2024
Intel
Global proprietary trading firm Jane Street Capital has taken legal action against multi-strategy hedge fund major Millennium Management and two former employees over the alleged theft of trader secrets, according to a report by the Financial Times.
- 15/04/2024
Intel
A Dutch arbitration court has ordered South Korea to pay New York hedge fund Mason Capital Management more than $32m in a dispute over the merger of two Samsung affiliates back in 2015, according to a report by Reuters.
- 12/04/2024
Intel
Brevan Howard Asset Management’s cryptocurrency fund, BH Digital, which manages around $1.7bn in assets, returned 34.5% in the first three months of the year, bringing total gains since it debuted in March 2022 to nearly 51%, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 11/04/2024
