Headstart Fund of Funds posted its fourth consecutive double-digit positive annual return in 2023, with back-to-back returns in excess of 20% in both 2022 and 2023 seeing it outperform global equity and bond markets and every hedge fund index on
Registered investment advisers (RIAs) who run private funds for clients have upped their allocations to private equity investments while cutting their exposure to hedge funds over the last nine years, according to a report by Citywire.
L1 Capital, a prominent Australian activist hedge fund firm launched by former Macquarie investment banker James Hawkins, has recorded a gain of more than 42% with its Catalyst Fund since the strategy launched in 2021, according to a report by
Stock-picking hedge funds were the best performing hedge fund strategy in Q1 2024 with an average 7.9% gain, but they still trailed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index, which put on 10.6% and 9.3% respectively, according to a report
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
Quant hedge fund firm DE Shaw’s statistical arbitrage Valence fund has started the year strongly with a 9% Q1 gain, beating the average 5% hedge fund gain for the first three months of the year, but falling shy of the
Global hedge funds sold off US stocks at a faster pace than they bought for the fifth week in a row last week, with much of the sell-off coming in communication services stocks and exchange-traded funds, according to a report
Digital asset investment products continued to benefit from positive investor sentiment last week with inflows totalling $646m, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
London-based macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management saw a 12.5% gain in Q1 2024, with a 3.8% gain in March alone, benefiting from other macro traders’ wrong-way bets on the US Federal Reserve potentially lowering interest rates, according to a
A second straight year of losses has prompted Antara Capital, a $1.3bn hedge fund backed by Blackstone, to block redemptions from its illiquid assets by placing them in a so-called side-pocket, according to a report by Bloomberg.
