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Hedge funds are fuelling a booming market in Europe for trading debt that has yet to be issued, as distressed restructurings create new speculative opportunities in private credit, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Hedge fund Citadel has appointed Benjamin McRoberts, formerly Goldman Sachs’ EMEA head of commodities strategies, as head of European power engineering in its London office, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
HSBC Holdings is conducting a review of its relationships with hedge funds and smaller banks active in private credit markets, as concerns grow over potential contagion following a series of corporate defaults, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows of $921m last week, supported by improving investor confidence after lower-than-expected US CPI data, according to the latests Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Millennium Management has strengthened its Dubai presence by hiring Edward Pisano, formerly a senior Commodities Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital Management, as part of a broader push into commodity trading in the region, according to a report by Financial News London.
Accounts for Mike Platt’s hedge fund-turned-family office BlueCrest Capital Management LLP reveal a significant rise in partner remuneration following a year of strong performance, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
The Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) has made a $250m commitment to Capstone Drummer Fund, LP, marking its only active allocation to the hedge fund manager within TRS’s $4.1bn Diversifying Strategies Portfolio.
London-based hedge fund Arini Capital Management, which was founded four years ago by Hamza Lemssouguer and manages $12bn, has added Hassan Ajakane as an equity derivatives portfolio manager to strengthen its credit hedging capabilities, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to stop publicly revealing the identities of investors holding short positions, moving to aggregated and anonymised reporting instead, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian Partners and technology-focused investor General Catalyst have submitted a $7.2bn takeover proposal for London-based asset manager Janus Henderson, according to a report by Reuters.
