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Arini Capital, the hedge fund founded by former Credit Suisse credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer, has agreed to provide £598m in financing to the Very Group, the UK-based online retail business owned by the Barclay family, according to a report by The Times.
Block Asset Management, a long-standing player in digital asset fund solutions, has launched the BAM Blockchain Alpha Fund (BAF), a multi-manager hedge fund targeting uncorrelated alpha in the digital asset space.
Hedge funds and asset managers are piling into bullish yen positions at a record pace, as renewed US tariffs under President Donald Trump spark a flight to safe-haven assets and cast doubt over the Bank of Japan’s tightening trajectory, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Hedge funds slashed bullish positions on oil at a record pace last week as US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff measures rattled energy markets and cast a shadow over global demand, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from ICE Futures Europe.
Ripple, the San Francisco-based digital asset infrastructure firm, has agreed to acquire Hidden Road, a fast-growing global prime broker, for $1.25bn – marking one of the largest M&A transactions in the digital assets space to date.
Digital asset prime broker LTP has launched a new over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform, significantly broadening its institutional service offering and pushing further toward its ambition of becoming a fully integrated, multi-asset prime broker.
Bronte Capital, the hedge fund led by prominent Australian investor John Hempton, has posted one of its strongest recent quarters, with gains driven largely by successful short positions amid turbulent global markets, according to a report by the Financial Review.
Singapore-based macro hedge fund RV Capital Management is opening an office in Dubai, becoming the latest in a growing wave of hedge funds establishing a strategic base for operations in the United Arab Emirates, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global long-short equity hedge funds underperformed sharply during the recent US stock market surge but showed resilience as markets turned volatile again, according to a report by Reuters citing prime brokerage data from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Catastrophe bonds proved their value as a resilient diversifier as global markets were ran into Trump tariff turmoil according to a report by Bloomberg citing Fermat Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on insurance-linked securities (ILS).
