Managers
The Swiss franc is beginning to attract long interest from hedge funds after weeks of wagers against the currency, according to a report by Bloomberg citing the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Hedge fund assets at global alternative investment firm Hillhouse Investment, which operates out of offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, New York and London, plummeted by a third last month to $27.5bn, according to a report by Reuters.
London-based activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners has set its sights on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, with a proposal to oust Larry Fink, the company’s Founder, from his position as Chairman, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.Â
Hong Kong-based activist hedge fund Oasis Management has set its sights on Japanese cosmetics and skincare company Kao Corporation, whose brands include Molton Brown and Curél, by urging the company to divest underperformers from its portfolio.
The Walt Disney Company says its full slate of 12 directors was elected by a substantial margin over the nominees of activist hedge funds Trian and Blackwells at the entertainment giant’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday.
The world’s nine biggest multi-strategy hedge fund firms – Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Verition, Schonfeld, Walleye, Eisler and ExodusPoint – now employ a combined 15,665 people, with almost half that total (7,103) being in investment roles, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Multi-strategy major Citadel saw positive performance across all of its investment strategies in the first quarter of the year, with the firm’s flagship investment vehicle, the Wellington fund, posting a 5.75% gain, according to a report by Reuters.
Disney’s board has secured the backing of T Rowe Price – and the votes attached to the mutual fund’s firm’s 11.7m shareholding in the entertainment giant – in its battle with Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund firm Trian Fund Management, according to a report by Reuters.
Successful activist bets have helped Third Point, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Daniel Loeb, to record an 8% return for its main offshore fund and a 8.7% gain for its Ultra strategy so far this year, according to a report by Reuters.
Lawsuits brought by Aurelius Capital Management and other hedge funds seeking payments on securities linked to the performance of Argentina’s economy, have been dismissed by a federal court in Manhattan, according to a report by Bloomberg.
