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Dubai’s status as a global hub for alternative asset managers continues to strengthen, with the Dubai International Financial Centre reporting record-breaking growth in company registrations during the first half of 2025 – driven in large part by a sharp rise in hedge funds and wealth management firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds scaled back their bullish bets on US crude to the lowest levels since early April as mounting uncertainty over trade negotiations and a looming 1 August tariff deadline raised concerns over future energy demand, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Fourier Asset Management LLP, a new London-based global credit long-short hedge fund firm, which employs a data-driven, quantitative trading strategy to focus on global relative value opportunities, has appointed Mark A Rieder as a Senior Advisor.
Qube Research & Technologies, the quantitative hedge fund spun out of Credit Suisse, is continuing its strategic pivot beyond pure quant by poaching top-ranked equity researchers from the sell side, including veterans from Barclays, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Digital asset products saw all-time high weekly inflows of $4.39bn last week, bringing YTD inflows to US$27bn, pushing AuM to a record $220bn, according to a the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Global derivatives and securities exchange Cboe Global Markets, is to wind down its Japanese equities business, including the operations of its Cboe Japan proprietary trading system and Cboe BIDS Japan block trading platform.
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has issued one of his starkest warnings yet about the US economy, likening the country’s $37tn debt burden to an impending “economic heart attack” and urging a return to fiscal discipline akin to the 1990s, according to a report by Fortune.
Hedge funds delivered strong performance in the first half of 2025, returning 11% year-to-date after a sharp Q2 rebound that saw average returns reach 8.3%, according to new data from asset servicing solutions specialist Citco.
Wall Street banks, including Morgan Stanley, are increasingly turning to complex synthetic risk transfer (SRT) deals to unlock capital and expand lending to hedge funds, as they compete for a larger slice of a booming prime brokerage market, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Third Point, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Daniel Loeb, has held a $400m first close for its Insurance Solutions Fund I, marking the firm’s first dedicated private credit strategy tailored for insurance companies, according to a report by Alternative Credit Investor.
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