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Increased domestic scrutiny by Chinese regulators has prompted several of the country’s data-driven quant trading funds including MS Capital and DH Fund Management to ramp up their international operations, according to a report by Reuters.
Florida man Michael Wayne Williams has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for using his hedge fund management company Highguard Capital as part of a years-long, multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
High frequency trading firm Jane Street Capital failed in a bid to secure a temporary restraining order against Millennium Management from a Manhattan court on Friday as it looked to stop the multi-strategy hedge find firm using an allegedly stolen trading strategy, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and inflationary problems, hedge funds have turned more bearish on global equities than at any other point so far this year, cutting their long positions and upping short bets, according to a report by Reuters.
Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, saw investors pull more than $1.6bn (£1.29bn) from its funds during the first three months of 2024, its second straight quarter of redemptions following outflows of $300m in Q4 2023, according to the group’s Q1 results.
The IMF has warned that a “concentration of vulnerability has built up” which poses a potential risk to wider financial stability, given that a small group of hedge funds now accounts for the vast majority of short positions in the US Treasury futures market, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Multi-strategy hedge fund Citadel and Founder Ken Griffin’s market-making firm Citadel Securities have agreed to a deal with British Land and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC to pre-let over 250,000 sq ft of space at the new 2 Finsbury Avenue (2FA) development in the City of London.
A period of poor performance has prompted macro hedge fund major Brevan Howard to embark on a strategic cost cutting exercise which will see the Jersey-headquartered firm axe around 100 traders and middle and back-office staff, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Two years of losses at Lijaro Asset Management has prompted Founder Stephen Irving, who left Balyasny Asset Management to start the long-short equity hedge fund about four years ago, to return money to investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management and Boston-based systematic global equity manager Arrowstreet Capital are among a number of hedge funds shorting the assets of UK water companies, after a crisis at Thames Water highlighted high debt levels across the industry, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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