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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
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, according to a report by CoinDesk.
The report cites an email seen by CoinDesk as confirming that The Fir Tree Digital Asset Opportunities Fund will launch on 1 August.
Fir Tree, which has previously dabbled in crypto through an attempt to short Tether’s USDT stable coin, believes it can leverage its experience in credit, capital structure arbitrage, distressed, special situation
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 a report by Bloomberg.
Chris Rokos’s macro hedge fund has almost recovered from the losses it incurred earlier in the year because of wild swings in global interest rate markets, having posted a 4% gain last month on the back of a 5% return in May, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Cutter Capital Management, a new healthcare-focused hedge fund founded by former Citadel portfolio manager Vince Aita, has begun trading with $275m from two institutional investors, according to a report by Bloomberg. Â
Hedge funds surged in June with technology, AI and growth leading gains complemented by shareholder activist and multi-strategy sub-strategies driving a 2.35% gain in the HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite Index as banking volatility subsided.Â
Digital asset investment products saw $136m of inflows last week bringing the last three consecutive weeks inflows to $470m, fully reversing the prior nine weeks of outflows, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
Said Haidar’s flagship Jupiter hedge fund was back in the black last month after notching an estimated 27.3% gain, going at least some way to reversing some of the heavy losses seen in recent months, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Citadel’s flagship Wellington multi-strategy fund outperformed the broader hedge fund industry in the first six months of this year, racking up a return of 7.15%, according to a report by Reuters citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter.
The fund was up by 0.95% in June alone, while the hedge fund industry on average managed a gain of just 0.63% in the first half of the year, according to figures from hedge fund data provider HFR.
Other Citadel funds chalked up H1 gains too, according to Reuters’ source, with the Citadel Tactical Trading fund seeing a 2.07% gain
Digital asset investment products saw a second week of inflows totalling $125 million, bringing the last two weeks of inflows to $334 million, representing almost 1% of total AUM, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report.
