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Hedge fund activists are intensifying their push into Japan, with investments on track to surpass last year’s record as corporate governance reforms and mounting pressure on companies to prioritise shareholder returns create fertile ground for investor engagement, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is launching its first new degree in 50 years – a master’s in quantitative finance – funded by a record $60m gift from Bruce Jacobs, co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, according to a report by Bloomberg.
In an unusual twist in the multi-strategy hedge fund hiring battle, portfolio managers coming off significant losses are increasingly in demand among the industry’s biggest players, including Citadel, Millennium Management, Point72 and Balyasny Asset Management, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds including Eisler Capital and quant trading shops including Squarepoint Capital are aggressively hiring traders who specialise in commodity volatility as global market swings create opportunities for profit, according tom a report by Financial News.
Hedge funds have won a regulatory victory after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) agreed to allow Japan Securities Clearing Corp (JSCC) to clear yen-denominated interest rate swaps for US customers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds posted a 1.71% gross return in August 2025, according to the latest SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index, while net investor flows in September rose 0.46%, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index.
Hedge funds are showing renewed interest in China’s $19tn equity market, three years after many shunned it as “uninvestable,” drawn by tech opportunities and the chance to diversify beyond crowded US assets, according to anecdotal evidence supported by data from Morgan Stanley.
The court-supervised auction of Citgo Petroleum’s parent company has entered its final stages, with an affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Investment Management the front-runner to win control of the seventh-largest US oil refiner, according to a report by Reuters.
Atsushi Sakano, a former Partner at Hong Kong-based Aspex Management, is launching Tenucia Partners, a new long-short hedge fund focused on Asian equities, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans.
Macro hedge funds are ramping up bullish option positions on the Australian dollar after the currency rallied to its strongest levels against the US dollar since November, according to a report by Bloomberg citing trading data from the the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
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