Up-market pet-food and treats manufacturer Freshpet has hired bankers to explore a possible sale of the business following pressure from activist investors including hedge fund Jana Partners, according to a report by Barron’s. Jana Partners, acquired a stake of almost
Teza Technologies, a global quantitative multi-strategy, multi-PM hedge fund manager with more than $500 million in assets under management, is opening its first European office in London. The new office, which will serve as the headquarters of the firm’s expanding
Alternative investments firms saw a significant increase in interest in 2022, according to Peregrine Communications’ second annual Alts 50 report assessing the integrated marketing communications (IMC) performance of the alternative investment management industry. The report found that nearly three-in-four (74%)
Billionaire hedge fund investor Ken Griffin believes that a US recession is inevitable and could happen as soon as next year, according to a report by the Financial Times. Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference in New York yesterday, the
Private health science startup investor Lumira is setting up a hedge fund to bet on public copies it regards as having been oversold during the sector’s troubled past year, according to a report by The Globe & Mail.
London-based hedge fund Cirera Capital is liquidating with co-founder Ahmet Arinc, the former head of forex at Deutsche Bank, set to join multi-strategy firm ExodusPoint Capital Management, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites an investor document as
Hedge funds and traders see the wild swings seen in British markets in the past couple of days as having provided an “opportunity of a lifetime” for currency and bond trading, according to a report by Reuters. The market turmoil
Crispin Odey, the founder of hedge fund Odey Asset Management and well-known donor to the Conservative party, believes it’s too early to get bullish on sterling despite the fund plugging to a record low against the dally following Chancellor Kwasi
The Bank of England (BoE) is in “La La Land” Edouard De Langlade, the founder of EDL Capital said in an interview on Monday and will be forced to act sooner rather than later to stabilise the UK’s currency and
Bets against sterling saw their biggest two-week rise since 2013 in the first half of a September, a sign that hedge funds and other leveraged funds upped their short position as Liz Truss took up her new role as Britain’s
