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Digital assets investment products saw outflows this week totalling $107m as the profit taking seen in recent weeks continued to gather pace, according to the latest Digital Asset Funds Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Large institutional investors, including pension funds and insurance companies, are looking to up their allocations to credit and equity hedge fund strategies between now and the end of the year, according to a report by Reuters.
A total of $600m has now been withdrawn from Odey Asset Management’s funds in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct levelled against the firm’s founder Crispin Odey, according to a report by MorningStar.
European credit hedge funds are the most in-demand strategy among investors for the second half of the year, with a net 14% keen to up their allocations by the end of 2023, according to a report by Reuters citing data from a survey by Barclays.
Hedge funds continued their resurgence in Q2, recording positive performance for a third consecutive quarter, with equities and multi-strategy funds once again driving returns to take their YTD weighted average gains to over 10%, according to data from Citco.
Digital asset investment products saw minor outflows totaling $6.5m last week, following four weeks of inflows that totaled a combined $742m, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Bitcoin was the primary investor focus, as has recently been the case, seeing $13m of outflows, while short bitcoin investment products saw outflows for the 13th consecutive week totaling $5.5m.
Ether topped the inflows leaderboard last week, attracting $6.6m inflows, suggesting sentiment for the cryptocurrency, which has been poor this year despite the so-called Merge in September 2022 when ether switched from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Canada’s largest pension fund, will seed more startup hedge funds this year as part of a plan to diversify its investments, according to a report by the Financial Post.
The CPPIB, which manages $570 billion in assets, will spread funding among more firms as part of its emerging manager programme by reducing the starting amount they invest with each fund. Each will receive amounts starting from US$50 million, down from US$100 million, a person familiar with the matter said.
The move comes as startup hedge funds face an increasingly launch environment, with larger multi-strategy
Total hedge fund assets increased for the third consecutive quarter in Q2, as investors allocated new capital to equity hedge and event driven strategies, according to Hedge Fund Research.
Jonas Diedrich and Dave Sutton, former traders at Citadel, have raised $1.85bn for their new London-based hedge fund Ilex Capital Partners, exceeding their initial $1.7bn target, and making the new fund one of the biggest debuts of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Davidson Kempner Capital Management has closed its Davidson Kempner Opportunities Fund VI, which will target investments in less liquid, longer-duration situations arising from capital dislocations, motivated sellers, and substantial asset or structural complexity, with $3bn in capital commitments.
The five previous vintages of the fund have collectively invested over $10bn since the strategy’s inception in 2011. The funds are diversified across geographies, industries and investment types, including corporates, real estate, structured products, infrastructure and hard assets.
DK Opportunities Fund VI is co-managed by Yoseloff and Conor Bastable, Managing Member, Global Credit, and is supported by a 113-person credit investing team
