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New York-headquartered multi-strategy hedge fund firm Walleye Capital is to close its Houston office, with Jim Rowe, Senior Portfolio Manager and Managing Director, also leaving the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Several high-profile hedge funds including Balyasny, Man Group, Winton and Bridgewater Associates are rekindling their interest in portable alpha strategies, which seek to ‘decouple’ alpha from beta to capture market-beating returns, according to a report by Business Insider.
SEI and Canoe Intelligence have launched a new integration aimed at family offices, automating the transmission of private equity and hedge fund valuations as well as private equity call and distribution data, via the SEI Archway Platform.
As the path of interest rates in Europe becomes clearer, hedge funds are increasingly capitalising on range-bound markets by systematically selling rates volatility, according to a report by Risk.net, citing data from dealers.
Former Liontrust Tortoise fund managers Matthew Smith and Tom Morris have launched their new hedge fund, QSM Capital, which aims to differentiate itself by offering a blend of traditional and alternative investment strategies.
Digital assets investment provider CoinShares has selected TS Imagine’s TS One trading and risk management solution for its new Relative Value equities hedge fund.
APAC-focused hedge funds outperformed their North America- and Europe-focused peers in Q2 with an average net return of 3.5%, versus 0.18% and 1.44% respectively, according to Preqin’s Hedge Funds Q2 2024 report.
Pershing Square has abruptly cancelled the IPO of Pershing Square USA, just days before it was set to debut on the New York Stock Exchange, and months after founder Bill Ackman suggested it would be one of the largest IPOs ever, according to a report by Reuters.
Case Hedgefond, a multi-strategy Swedish hedge fund that once managed more than SEK15bn (€1.29bn), is set to merge into Case Fonder’s credit hedge fund, Case Credit Opportunity, after assets dwindled to just €100m.
Acuity Knowledge Partners, a research, analytics, staffing and technology provider to the financial services sector including hedge funds and private equity firms, has appointed Jon O’Donnell as Chief Operating Officer.
