Managers
Third Point, the investment manager of Third Point Investors Limited, has published its Q4 2024 investor letter, highlighting robust returns across its strategies, including a 9.1% gain for its flagship Offshore Fund, and key portfolio updates.
Jun Bei Liu, founder of Ten Cap, has set an ambitious goal to double the size of her hedge fund to AUD3bn following the fund’s separation from Tribeca Investment Partners in October 2024, according to a report by the Financial Standard.
Hedge fund investors are increasingly shifting away from traditional strategies that rely on broader market movements for returns towards alternative trades amid expectations of volatile markets in 2025, according to a report by Reuters citing a new Barclays survey released on Tuesday.
Quest Partners, a $2.2bn alternative asset manager, has rebranded as AlphaQuest as the company expands beyond its managed futures focus to incorporate equities, global macro, and other asset classes with an emphasis on tail risk arbitrage and portfolio protection strategies.
Promeritum Investment Management, a hedge fund that has reaped over 30% returns from distressed emerging market (EM) dollar bonds, is shifting focus, with Co-Founder Paval Mamai believing that the trade has run its course after a two-year streak of gains, according to a report by Bloomberg.Â
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has taken a stake in Becton Dickinson and is pushing the $72bn medical technology company to sell or spin off its life sciences division, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Bill Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, is to relocate his management company from Delaware to Nevada following the footsteps of other prominent companies including Dropbox and SpaceX, according to a report by Business Insider.
Saba Capital has suffered further blows in its ongoing effort to shake up Britain’s £269bn investment trust sector, as shareholders in two more trusts rejected the US activist hedge fund firm’s board proposals on Monday, according to a report by Reuters.
Hedge funds aggressively sold off US equities for a fifth consecutive week last week, anticipating market turbulence ahead of President Donald Trump’s new tariff measures, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage unit.
US activist investor Saba Capital Management may have lost the first battle in it bid to overhaul Britain’s £269bn ($333bn) investment trust sector, but the war is far from over with five more trusts set to face shareholder votes over control of their boards this week, according to a report by Reuters.
