Funds
Chris Hohn’s The Children’s Investment Fund has posted a 21% year-to-date return, significantly outperforming the S&P 500 and cementing Hohn’s reputation as one of the hedge fund industry’s leading equity investors, according to a report by the Financial Tines.
Quantitative hedge funds posted standout returns in the first half of 2025, thriving amid volatile markets and policy shocks that punished traditional strategies but created fertile ground for systematic stock-pickers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Amplify Investment Partners has launched two new retail hedge funds – the Amplify SCI Cautious Retail Hedge Fund and the Amplify SCI Stable Income Retail Hedge Fund – strengthening its presence in South Africa’s growing regulated hedge fund space, according to a report. Y CityWire.
Two of Asia’s largest multi-strategy hedge funds – Singapore-based Dymon Asia Capital and Hong Kong’s Pinpoint Asset Management – delivered strong gains in June, capping off an impressive first half of 2025 as regional markets rebounded sharply from early-year trade war jitters, according to a report by Reuters.
UK hedge fund Helikon Investments is reaping major rewards in 2025 after making a bold contrarian bet on Poland’s long-ignored coal utility sector, with the firm’s Long Short Equity Fund Master ICAV up 36% year-to-date, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds posted encouraging results for the first half of 2025, overcoming market turbulence tied to US trade policy uncertainty and capitalising on surging equity markets, according to a report by Reuters citing new data from Goldman Sachs.
AQR Capital Management, led by billionaire investor Cliff Asness, has delivered double-digit returns across multiple strategies in the first half of 2025, according to a report by Reuters citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
King Street Capital Management has closed its latest European real estate special situations fund at $950m, reaching its hard cap in just 12 months as signs of distress return to the continent’s property market, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Ken Griffin’s $66bn hedge fund Citadel posted a modest 2.5% gain in the first half of 2025, falling behind smaller multi-manager rivals Balyasny and ExodusPoint, which returned 7.3% and 9.3%, respectively, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Whetstone Capital, the $250m hedge fund known for its contrarian deep-value approach, posted a 21% return in May – its best monthly performance since inception – by doubling down on unloved and mispriced growth names left behind during recent market dislocations, according to a report by MarketWatch.
