Funds
Some 88% of hedge funds have so far seen positive returns from across most strategies in 2024, building on 2023’s double-digit returns, according to the latest monthly report on hedge funds from Citco, the $1.8tn global alternative investment asset servicer.
Fundraising for Bobby Jain’s much anticipated hedge fund launch later this year has reached $3bn, roughly half of the revised target for the new fund, which is expected to begin trading in July, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched the MS INVF Systematic Liquid Alpha Fund, which will be managed by its $25bn hedge funds team and will leverage a diversified set of investment strategies across different asset classes, including equity, fixed income, cash equivalents, currencies and commodities.
Segantii Capital Management, the Hong Kong-based multi-strategy hedge fund firm founded by Simon Sadler in 2007, has seen its assets shrink by 18% over the past year on the back of investment losses and client redemptions, according to a report by Bloomberg.
An electricity failure and subsequent shutdown of a BP refinery in the US sparked an oil sell-off as hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 86m barrels in the six most important petroleum-related futures and options contracts over the past week, according to a report by Reuters.
Global hedge funds bought more stocks than they sold for the second consecutive week last week, mainly in ‘cyclical’ sectors such as energy, industrials and materials, amid an “almost no panic” market, according to a report by Reuters.
Hedge funds’ bets have switched from bearish to bullish after the US economy’s unexpected job surge in the first six weeks of 2024 boosted optimism for the dollar, which has climbed nearly 3% so far this year, according to a report by the Financial Times citing executives at Citibank, JPMorgan, Rabobank and State Street.
Hedge funds continued their end-of-year momentum into the first month of 2024 amid escalating geopolitical tensions, with fixed income-based strategies leading the way in terms of returns, according to performance data from HFR.
Pershing Square Capital Management’s Bill Ackman exited his position in US home improvement retailer Lowe’s, after it generated a net $1.3bn profit for his fund’s investors, according to a report by Reuters.
Aaron Weiner, a Managing Director at Coatue Management, the $40bn hedge fund founded by Philippe Laffont, will leave the firm at the end of the year to start his own hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.
