Some of the world’s biggest macro traders slumped in the first six months of the year, with Andrew Law’s Caxton Macro hedge fund and Jeff Tallinn’s Element Capital Management among the big name managers seeing first half losses, according to
The Donerail Group, a value-oriented, activist hedge fund firm that targets special situations and event driven investments, wants the board of Stratasys to engage with 3D Systems on its improved takeover offer for the company and drop its support for
New York-based hedge fund firm Fir Tree Partners is looking to capitalise on the turmoil seen in the digital assets market over the past year or so by launching a hedge fund that will make investments in distressed crypto assets,
Online grocer Ocado, Swedish property firm Fastighets AB Balder, and French train maker Alstom, were among the three most shorted stocks in June, but all three saw positive share price performance over the month, according to a report by Reuters.
Hedge funds upped their bets against the yen to the highest level in more than year just as the currency was in the middle of a two-week rally, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from the Commodity Futures
Two Sigma Investments, the $60bn quant hedge-fund giant known for using computer-driven algorithms to make money, is looking to add a human touch to its investment strategies for the first time by employing traders who use their own personal judgement
A US court ruling that Microsoft’s proposed $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard can proceed despite anti-trust objections from the Federal Trade Commission, has provided a major boost for merger-arbitrage investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Akin has appointed Patrick Dundas as a partner in the firm’s investment management practice in New York. Joining from Schulte Roth & Zabel with more than 15 years experience in the private funds industry, he will lead the market intelligence
Digital asset investment products saw $137m of inflows last week, taking total inflows for the last four weeks to $742m, the largest run of inflows since the final quarter of 2021, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly
Finbourne Technology, a provider of cloud-native data management SaaS solutions to hedge funds, asset managers and other financial services firms, has appointed Neil Ryan as Head of Product Marketing and Solution Positioning. 
