Bridgewater Associates has warned that rising government spending and near-term inflation pressures linked to AI are creating an increasingly challenging outlook for global bond markets, prompting the hedge fund to favour equities over fixed income, according to a report by
Hedge funds are re-engaging with the popular swap spread widener trade, which bets that Treasuries will outperform swaps of the same maturity, as the gap between US Treasury yields and interest-rate swap rates continues to expand, according to a report
Elliott Investment Management and British housing entrepreneur Jeff Fairburn, partners in Avant Homes Group, are pursuing legal action against Lloyds Banking Group over who should bear the cost of cladding remediation on properties that fail to meet updated fire-safety regulations.
Quant hedge fund Two Sigma has strengthened its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities with the appointment of Francesco Maria Delle Fave as a senior vice president in London, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Hedge fund redemption activity dropped to its lowest level in five years in January, pointing to improving investor confidence despite rising geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, according to the latest data from SS&C GlobeOp.
Shares in GCP Infrastructure rose on Thursday after Saba Capital, the activist hedge fund firm led by Boaz Weinstein, disclosed a stake of more than 5% in the UK-listed investment company, according to a report by Quoted Data.
Quantitative investment teams are placing increasing emphasis on sector- and industry-specific datasets as artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in research workflows, according to a new survey conducted by Bloomberg.
Mala Gaonkar’s hedge fund SurgoCap Partners has grown assets to approximately $6bn, just three years after beginning trading – marking one of the fastest-scaling hedge fund launches in recent years, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds increased bullish bets on gold to their highest level in four months last week, as geopolitical and policy uncertainty continued to drive investor demand for hard assets, according to data analysis by Bloomberg news.
Elliott Management’s proposed acquisition of Venezuela-owned US refinery Citgo has been thrown into uncertainty following President Donald Trump’s removal of Nicolás Maduro, raising fresh political and regulatory risks for the hedge fund’s $8bn investment, according to a report by the
