James Regan has left UBS in London, where he held the position of Co-Head: Global G11 & PM STIR Trading, to take up a Portfolio Manager position in New York at multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund firm Verition Fund Management.
The world’s nine biggest multi-strategy hedge fund firms – Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Verition, Schonfeld, Walleye, Eisler and ExodusPoint – now employ a combined 15,665 people, with almost half that total (7,103) being in investment roles, according to a report
Digital asset investment products saw a recovery in sentiment with inflows totalling $862m last week, almost fully recovering the prior week’s record $931m outflows, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Multi-strategy major Citadel saw positive performance across all of its investment strategies in the first quarter of the year, with the firm’s flagship investment vehicle, the Wellington fund, posting a 5.75% gain, according to a report by Reuters.
Successful activist bets have helped Third Point, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Daniel Loeb, to record an 8% return for its main offshore fund and a 8.7% gain for its Ultra strategy so far this year, according
GoldenTree Asset Management, the $54bn global credit hedge fund firm founded by Steve Tananbaum, has closed its third CLO strategy, GoldenTree Loan Management (GLM) III with commitments of $1.3bn, ahead of its $1bn target.
Citadel has appointed Zheng Wang, a former Senior Software Engineer at San Francisco-based self-driving vehicle technology specialist Cruise, as a software Engineer based in the multi-strategy major’s New York headquarters.
Gregory Ciongoli, a partner in the public investment group at The Baupost Group, has left the $23bn value-oriented, multi-strategy hedge fund firm, which is headed by Chef Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager Seth Klarman, according to a report by Pensions
Lawsuits brought by Aurelius Capital Management and other hedge funds seeking payments on securities linked to the performance of Argentina’s economy, have been dismissed by a federal court in Manhattan, according to a report by Bloomberg.
New hedge fund launches fell while liquidations were steady in Q4 to conclude 2023 as managers positioned for falling inflation and an improving economic outlook, albeit with geopolitical risk rising to historic levels, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure
