Funds
The Protea International hedge fund delivered a 45.4% return in 2025, its strongest calendar-year performance since launch, driven by stock-specific alpha rather than broad market exposure, according to a report by CityWire citing portfolio manager Jean Pierre Verster.
Macro hedge fund Tekmerion Capital Management is spinning out from Brevan Howard Asset Management, and is set to relaunch later this year with over $1bn in investor commitments, according to a report by Bloomberg citing a company spokesperson.
Macro hedge fund Palinuro Capital, founded by former ING portfolio manager Alfonso Peccatiello, is in discussions to raise up to $400m in new capital as institutional appetite for macro strategies continues to build, according to a report by Financial News London.
Hiddenite Capital Partners, the London-based long-short hedge fund led by Ryan Packard, posted a 102% net return in 2025, marking its second straight year of triple-digit gains following a nearly 120% return in 2024, according to a report by Institutional Investor.
Blackstone’s largest hedge fund business posted a strong performance in 2025, with its Absolute Return Composite (AR) delivering a return of nearly 12%, comfortably outperforming industry benchmarks, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the figures.
Francis Lau’s one-man hedge fund, Lucida Capital, posted a 65% gain from April through December 2025, outperforming larger Canadian rivals, by investing – leverage-free – primarily in mid-cap US and Canadian stocks, according to Bloomberg data.
Kyma Capital, the London-based hedge fund founded by former GSO Capital Partners investor Akshay Shah, delivered net returns of around 48% in 2025, driven by a series of successful distressed debt investments, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Shares in BH Macro Limited closed sharply higher in trading late on Monday following an announcement from its investment manager, Brevan Howard, regarding a new private fund launch, according to a report by Quoted Data.
H2O Asset Management has launched Generative Global Macro, an actively-managed discretionary global macro fund that integrates generative AI tools to support behavioural finance analysis and enhance portfolio decision-making.
Global hedge fund industry assets have exceeded $5tn for the first time, driven by a combination of strong performance and sustained investor inflows, according to the latest Global Hedge Fund Industry Report from hedge fund indexation and analysis specialist HFR.
