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Short sellers are aggressively targeting the Hong Kong-listed shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), per data from S&P Global Markets Intelligence, despite a sharp rally and surging borrowing costs, according to a report by Bloomberg.
EquiLend has expanded its capabilities in securities finance with the acquisition of Trading Apps, a front-office technology provider known for its automation tools and modular trading solutions used by many of the world’s leading securities finance desks.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, a multi-manager hedge fund with $14bn in AUM, has appointed Michael Grad, the former global head of business development at BlueCrest Capital, as its Chief Investment Initiatives Officer, according to a report by Business Insider.
Equity long-short hedge funds are experiencing a notable resurgence in 2025, attracting $10bn in H1 net inflows – their first positive inflow period in nearly a decade – as volatile markets create stock-picking opportunities, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Global law firm K&L Gates has expanded its hedge fund advisory capabilities with the hire of Robert Leonard, a seasoned attorney from Dechert LLP, as a Partner in its Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice in New York.
Brevan Howard Asset Management’s star macro trader Minal Bathwal has delivered a standout first-half performance, with his flagship MB Macro Master Fund gaining 9.8% through June, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Man Group, the world’s largest publicly listed hedge fund firm, posted record assets under management (AUM) of $193.3bn at the end of June, buoyed by its strongest-ever quarterly inflows, even as some of its core alternative strategies underperformed, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Steve Barclay, a former senior portfolio manager at Millennium Management, has launched a new energy-focused hedge fund, Saber Capital, with seed backing from institutional allocator New Holland Capital, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
South Korea has paid US hedge fund Mason Capital Management KRW74.6bn (approximately $54m), following a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a high-profile investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) case linked to Samsung’s 2015 merger, according to a report by Yonhap.
Digital assets firm OSL, which offers institutional-grade trading, custody, and SaaS infrastructure, has raised $300m in fresh capital to fuel its global expansion, marking one of the largest funding rounds in the crypto sector this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
