Brahman Capital Corp's stock-picking hedge fund is to close after over 30 years of trading following losses in the past two years, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Long-short equity hedge fund manager Peconic Partners has reclaimed the number one spot on HedgeFollow's Top 20 Best Performing Hedge Funds list, with a three-year performance figure of +191.50%, according to the latest rankings from the hedge fund tracker.
Cryptocurrency hedge fund firm BXB Capital, which is owned by Binance Korea's co-founders JJ Petersen and Alex Friedberg, is looking to raise $27 million for a new fund, with all capital commitments being made exclusively in bitcoin, according to a report by Fortune.
Maitri Capital is looking to raise $250 million to support the launch of a new AI and machine-learning-powered quantitative trading fund – the Maitri Cento Quant Fund – which the company says will offer an "innovative investment strategy".
Hedge funds recorded another positive month in April, with a total weighted average return of 1.1%, taking YTD returns to 5.58%, according to the latest data from Citco, a global alternative investment asset servicer with one $1.8 trillion in assets under administration.
The hedge fund industry built on its prior month’s gains in April, returning 0.41% for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index gained 1.56% in April.
New York-based hedge fund manager Scopia Capital Management is to launch a new market neutral UCITS fund – the Scopia Market Neutral Strategy – on Kepler Partners' Kepler Liquid Strategies (KLS) UCITS platform at the end of the second quarter of the year.
Syz Group has partnered with Crest, the hedge fund selection arm of Hong Kong crypto manager CMCC Global, to launch SyzCrest Digital Uncorrelated, a new fund of crypto hedge funds, which will be available to investors from 1 July.
Chase Coleman's technology-focused investment manager Tiger Global is exploring options to cash in a part of its $40 billion portfolio of privately held companies through secondary market sales, according to a report by Bloomberg.
On-going bouts of market volatility coupled with the current turmoil in the banking sector have seen global hedge fund launches slump to the lowest level seen since 2017, according to a report by Reuters, citing information from data services provider Preqin.