Funds
The rollercoaster ride at Haidar Capital Management continued in July with the firm’s flagship macro hedge fund, the Haidar Jupiter Fund, raking up a loss of 14% over the month, partly reversing its 27% surge in June, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Poor performance and difficulties in accessing banking services has seen aground 13% of crypto hedge funds shut up shop so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from Swiss investment adviser 21e6 Capital.
A total of $600m has now been withdrawn from Odey Asset Management’s funds in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct levelled against the firm’s founder Crispin Odey,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.
The risk profile of Crispin Odey’s flagship hedge fund has been lowered by Freddie Neave after he took over its management in June following allegations of sexual misconduct against the Odey Asset Management founder, according to a report by Reuters.
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.
CoinShares, the European crypto ETP specialist, is planning to launch its first hedge fund open to accredited US investors as part of a wider first-time push into actively managed digital asset products, according to a report by Blockworks.
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.
Spain’s first locally regulated crypto hedge fund, which will be overseen by the country’s financial markets regulator, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores has been launched by Spanish private bank A&G, according to a report by Crypto News.
Point72 topped a list of 14 different financial institutions making a total of 46 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the US Food and Drug Administration last month about adverse events and drug-manufacturing-facility inspections, according to a report by Law Street Media.
Bets on shares in AI-related companies, plus wagers on the wider Japanese and US stock markets, helped several Asia-based hedge fund firms outperform their peers during the first half of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that the CloudAlpha Tech Fund and the Sino Vision Greater China Market Neutral Fund saw returns of 35% and 25% respectively in the first half of the year on the back of bets on AI-related shares. The Panview Asian Equity Fund meanwhile, racked up a 13% gain driven by Japanese equities.
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