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Elliott Investment Management’s activist campaign at Phillips 66 gained momentum this week after former refining executive and long-time energy investor Gregory Goff publicly endorsed Elliott’s board nominees in the run-up to a high-stakes proxy vote, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management has posted a standout performance amid the latest bout of market dislocation, chalking up a 20% gain year-to-date as of early April, according to a report by Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter.
Frank Spiteri, Head of Asset Management, and member of the executive committee at CoinShares International Limited, a global investment company specialising in digital assets, has left the business according to a press release.
Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most closely watched quantitative hedge fund managers, suffered steep losses in April after a surprise tariff announcement by former President Donald Trump triggered a violent repricing across global markets, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, has weighed in on the escalating tariff tensions, urging the US to strike a trade agreement with China and shift focus toward fiscal consolidation, according to reports.
Howard Marks, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of distressed debt investment firm Oaktree Capital Management, has likened US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies to Brexit, calling them an “own goal”, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital has sold its entire stake in Keystone Positive Change (KPC), marking the US hedge fund’s formal exit from its activist campaign targeting the Baillie Gifford-managed UK investment trust, according to a report by Reuters.
A widely held hedge fund bet in US rates markets – long Treasuries versus interest-rate swaps – is rapidly unwinding, as escalating tariff tensions under President Donald Trump fuel a liquidity squeeze among US banks and reshape market positioning, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds including Citadel, Balayasny, and Qube, are accelerating their push to add Asian power market traders lured by surging volatility and structural opportunities in deregulated electricity systems across Japan and Australia, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hiring at the world’s largest multi-strategy hedge funds slowed in 2024, but firms continued expanding their investment teams, adding over 550 portfolio managers and analysts despite a softer recruitment push compared to previous years, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
