Institutional investors, led by the $202bn Texas Teacher Retirement System in Austin, are rallying support to push for the implementation of cash hurdles in hedge fund incentive fees, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Family offices with assets in excess of $1bn are increasingly opting for quantitative trading strategies as a cost-effective alternative to traditional hedge funds, according to a report by Bloomberg citing a Citigroup executive.
London-based digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital Asset Management has reported record H1 performance for its systematic Diversified Alpha Fund of 18.6% net, according to data from BarclayHedge.
Equity long-short strategies outperformed others with average gains of 2.7% for the second quarter of the year with global macro managers in particular underperforming, according to investment firm Unlimited’s Hedge Fund Barometer.
Digital asset investment products saw a third consecutive week of outflows last week although at $30m, the total represented a significant reduction in recent outflows, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Report from CoinShares.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors’ flagship hedge fund, Strategic Partners, posted a 10.3% gain in the first six months of the year on the back of positive performance across multiple strategies, according to a report by Reuters.
Bridgewater Associates, the hedge fund major led by CEO Nir Bar Dea, has launched a new strategy that uses machine learning as the primary basis for its investment decision making process, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Multistrategy hedge fund DE Shaw is raising capital for DE Shaw Diopter International Fund II as well as its counterpart, DE Shaw Diopter Fund II, according to a report by Institutional Investor citing regulatory filings.
London-based multi-manager hedge fund platform Falcon Investment Management has launched a new open-ended fund providing family offices with access to a hedge fund strategy previously reserved for large institutions.