Edinburgh-based fund Abrdn manager remains the fourth-most-shorted stock in the UK following disappointing results in August and has attracted the attention of two new short sellers, AHL Partners and Samlyn Capital, according to a report by CityWire.
The sell-side is increasing margin finance rates for hedge funds at a faster pace than rate rises, putting pressure on strategies and performance, the latest Acuiti Hedge Fund Management Insight report has found.
New hedge fund launches surged through mid-2023 as managers shifted the strategic growth focus to aggressive expansion of inflation trading teams in multi-strategy funds designed for and positioned to trade volatility driven by rising rates and generational inflation.
Hong-Kong-based alternative investment firm Olritz Financial Group, led by founder and investment fund manager Sean Chin, has joined the growing list of hedge fund firms establishing operations in the Middle East by opening a new office in the United Arab
Digital asset investment products saw positive flows last week for the first time in six weeks, pulling in a combined $21m, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Link Fund Solutions has completed the rebranding of three Odey AM and Brook AM funds with LF Odey Opus becoming LF Lancaster Global Equity, LF Brook Continental European renamed as LF Ardtur Continental European, and LF Brook Absolute Return as
big xyt, an independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community, has launched its “first-to-market” real-time data analytics service for a dataset of European trades and European Best Bid and Offer benchmark prices.
Commodity trend advisers, that is hedge funds that use computer algorithms to trade equities inline with movements in stock prices, will soon begin offloading shares worth between $20bn and $30bn, according to a report by Reuters.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management is in advanced talks over a partnership with smaller rival Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. The partnership would see Izzy Englander’s firm put billions of dollars to work with Steven Schonfeld’s computer-driven fund, according to a report by
Hedge funds setting up operations in Abu Dhabi have contributed to a 12% uplift on an annual basis in the GDP of the emirate’s private, non-oil economy to expand to a quarterly record of AED154bn ($41.9bn), according to a report
