LexShares, a tech-enabled leader in litigation finance, has held the oversubscribed closing of the LexShares Marketplace Fund II (LMFII), a USD100 million fund dedicated to investments in commercial legal claims. LexShares’ deployment of the fund will be overseen by new
London-based hedge fund firm Lodbrok Capital’s European Credit Opportunities Fund was up 32 per cent last year, according to a report by Bloomberg. The returns came on the back of investments in Swiss bakery firm Aryzta AG, UK oil services
Trian Fund Management, the activist hedge fund run by Nelson Peltz, has acquired a stake in Unilever Plc, according to the Financial Times and Reuters.
LoCorr Funds, a provider of low-correlating investment solutions, has marked the 10-year anniversary milestone of its Long/Short Commodities Strategy Fund (LCSAX, LCSCX, LCSIX). LoCorr Long/Short Commodities Strategy Fund is a multi-manager commodities strategy with the flexibility to take both long
Private equity firm Montagu has completed its investment in Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk, and compliance services to the asset management industry, while Hg, a global software and services investor, is also joining as a strategic investor and
Qblue Balanced (Qblue), a Copenhagen based asset manager, and Heptagon Capital (Heptagon), a London based asset management firm, have jointly launched an Article 9 equity fund – ‘Qblue Global Sustainable Leaders Fund’. The fund went live with USD140.5 million on
Investors pulled USD19.96 billion from the global hedge fund business in December, bringing full-year 2021 hedge fund AUM growth to +USD15.90 billion, according to eVestment’s December and Full Year 2021 Hedge Fund Asset Flows report.
Quant-focused Renaissance Technologies has seen almost USD15 billion in outflows over the past 14 months, according to a Bloomberg report, despite the firm’s three publically-available hedge funds having delivered double-digit returns for investors in 2021.
Michael Hintze’s hedge fund CQS is is considering launching a ‘green’ collateralised loan obligation (CLO) in Europe according to a report by Bloomberg, as it looks to further expand its ESG offering. The report says that CQS, which already holds
DL Holdings Group Limited has agreed agreed a deal with Hong Kong based hedge fund and asset management start-up company Atlas Multi-assets Capital Holdings Limited, to pay up top USD6.5 million to acquire about 38 per cent of the issued
