Newton Investment Management, a $111bn London-based investment boutique owned by BNY Mellon, which is seeking seed capital to enter the hedge fund multi-manager business, has hired Liliana Castillo Dearth as Head of Emerging Market and Asia Equities.
Hunterbrook, a VC-backed hedge fund firm, has begun hiring financial journalists who will operate independently from, but provide support to, its research team in identifying possible investments, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Global hedge funds topped their bearish positions in US financial stocks to the highest level seen in nearly five years last week, according to a report by Reuters citing data from Goldman Sachs prime brokerage division.
London-based multi-strategy firm Eisler Capital has become the latest hedge fund to limit the amount of money investors can withdraw from the firm’s funds, as demand for its services increases, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Investors pulled $667m from Sculptor Capital Management’s main hedge fund during the third quarter of the year marking the sixth consecutive quarter of net redemptions for the fund, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Elliott Investment Management the US-based activist hedge fund firm founded by Paul Singer, is looking to raise up to $7bn in new cash from investors to take advantage of stressed and distressed trading opportunities, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country’s securities watchdog, wants brokerages to limit the amount of leverage available to hedge funds that borrow large sums of money via a complex derivative business to trade stocks, according to a report by
Christopher N Gerosa, Chief Financial Officer at MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, is to step down from his role, effective 31 January, 2024.
Frederico Lupi has been appointed as co-head of Pictet Asset Management’s Agora long/short fund, amid a steep decline in assets from €1.66bn in February 2021 to €1143m at the end of last month, according to report by CityWire.
David Einhorn, the founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, which has chalked up a return of 27.7% in the first nine months of 2023, is “worried about the direction of the market”, according to a report by Reuters.
