Investors continued to pull cash from hedge funds in August redeeming an estimated $6.10bn to extend the current run of overall withdrawals to 15 months, according to the latest Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flows Report from Nasdaq eVestment.
Emerging Markets hedge funds extended gains through mid-2023 with India and Latin America funds leading the way against a backdrop of persistently high inflation and the possibility of a US recession, according to the latest performance data from HFR.
Former Morgan Stanley currency trader Thiago Melzer, is set to close his Brazilian hedge fund, Upon Global Capital, having been hit by a double whammy of wrong-way wagers and rising double-digit interest rates in Brazil, according to a report by
Bitcoin and ether will sustain their strong performance for the rest of this year, according to Nickel Digital Asset Management, a London-based regulated digital assets hedge fund manager. Nickel research has found that institutional investors and wealth managers are confident
Former Deutsche Bank colleagues Michael Sutton and Alex Mahler are teaming up again at Mahler’s Alinor Capital Management to launch a new distressed debt hedge fund, which is expected to be one of the largest European hedge fund launches of
Former Goldman Sachs co-chairman, ex-US senator, and governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine, is to shutter the hedge fund he started after the collapse of MF Global Holdings, and return cash to investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds saw a small decline in performance in August, with an overall weighted average return of -0.8%, marking the first negative month of 2023, according to new data from Citco, although almost half of funds (49.7%) administered by the
European asset management major Amundi, has partnered with $1.5bn special situations hedge find firm, Sand Grove Capital Management to launch a new event-driven UCITS fund, the Amundi Sand Grove Event Driven Fund.
Crypto hedge fund Grayscale is looking to launch a new exchange-traded fund tracking ether futures, according to a report by Finance Feeds citing a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing made on 19 September.
Digital asset investment products saw outflows totalling $54m last week, and have now seen outflows in eight of the last nine weeks totalling $455m, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
