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Elliott Investment Management has expanded its stake in US refiner Phillips 66 to more than $2.5bn, renewing its call for significant operational changes, including the sale or spin-off of the company’s midstream business, according to a report by Reuters.
Recent price fall led to significant buying of digital assets investment products last week with the fifth week of inflows totalling $1.3bn, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
London-based hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is building a high-tech data centre in Akureyri, Iceland, to boost its ability to analyse huge amounts of data as it bids to identify market discrepancies and profit from them, according to a report by Reuters.
Ninety One has appointment Justin Jewell as Portfolio Manager in its Developed Markets Specialist Credit team, joining Darpan Harar as Co-Portfolio Manager on the Multi Asset Credit and Global Total Return Credit funds.
Hedge funds turned bullish on US stocks last week, marking a notable reversal from the previous five weeks of selling, ramping up their buying at the fastest pace since November, according to a report by Bloomberg citing a Goldman Sachs prime brokerage report.
Ken Griffin, the founder of multi-strategy hedge fund major Citadel and market maker Citadel Securities, has issued a stark warning about the potential economic fallout from President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies, according to a report by the Daily Mail.
Jordan Wruble, Head of the Investment Solutions group at Brown Advisory, is seeking investment strategies that strike a balance between closely tracking market benchmarks and delivering added performance, known as “portable alpha”, according to a report by CityWire.
Hedge funds delivered an average return of 10.12% in 2024, with volatility five times lower than that of the MSCI World index — which climbed 19.22% — and generated 2.62% of alpha compared to none in 2023, according to the 2025 Hedge Fund Outlook report from BNP Paribas.
Hedge fund investors are increasingly seeing their returns whittled away by the controversial ‘passthrough fee’ structure that allows firms to pass along nearly any expense, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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