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Hedgeweek has announced the winners of the European Awards 2024, which recognise excellence among fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories.
Aaron Weiner, a Managing Director at Coatue Management, the $40bn hedge fund founded by Philippe Laffont, will leave the firm at the end of the year to start his own hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.Â
Pershing Square Founder Bill Ackman is set to launch a new US investment portfolio that will offer retail investors access to an investment strategy that mimics his existing hedge fund but with lower fees and faster access to capital, according to a report by Reuters.
LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions to hedge funds and other sophisticated clients, has appointed trading technology industry veteran Jason Morris as its new President.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a legal challenge to its latest set of rules, which require hedge funds and private equity firms to detail quarterly fees and expenses to investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
LMAX Exchange, an institutional exchange for global FX, has connected with the Libre Liquidity Bridge service from 4OTC, a provider of low latency connectivity services for digital assets and FX.
Activist investor Blackwells Capital, a shareholder of The Walt Disney Company, has reaffirmed its support for the entertainment giant’s current CEO Bob Iger in a proxy statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Equity long-short hedge funds have seen nearly $150bn in client withdrawals over the past five years as investors have lost faith in their ability to capitalise on bull markets and protect cash during market downturns, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Alternative asset, equity and fixed income fund managers have identified private equity, renewable energy and hedge funds as the alternative asset classes most likely to increased inflows in 2024, according to new research by fund management solutions specialist Carne Group.
Ahead of the Hedgeweek European Leadership Summit, taking place in London on Thursday 29 February, we sat down with Luca Albertini, the CEO and founding partner of Leadenhall Capital Partners to hear more on the current state of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, where it is heading in 2024, and what he is most looking forward to from the event. Â
