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US hedge fund firm Garda Capital Partners has expanded its yen rates trading capability with the appointment of JPMorgan Chase & Co Managing Director Yoichi Takemura as a Portfolio Manager in the firm’s Singapore office, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, has appointed Putri Pascualy as a Senior Managing Director, Client Portfolio Manager to lead the firm’s client engagement and strategic efforts on private credit and direct lending.
MFA, a representative body for the global alternative asset management industry, has submitted a comment letter to the FCA urging the authority to withdraw its proposal to publicly name financial firms under investigation.
Sculptor Capital Management, an alternative investment company operating multi-strategy, credit and real estate strategies, has closed a €354m European collateralised loan obligation, Sculptor European CLO XI.
A regulatory crackdown on the so-called basis trade, a hedge fund strategy that looks to exploit price differences between Treasury futures and bonds, could cause a “significant” hit to short-dated credit markets, according to strategists at UBS Group.
Hedge fund allocations by ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) have fallen to 2% of their investment portfolios from around 12% over the past 16 years, and the asset class is effectively “dead” as an investment opportunity for the super rich, according to a report by CNBC citing Michael Sonnenfeld, Founder and Chairman of Tiger 21 — a network of UHNWIs and entrepreneurs.
ActusRay Partners, a Hong Kong-based hedge fund firm backed by the city’s investment major Sun Hung Kai & Co, has more than doubled its assets to over $700m since the start of 2023, despite a challenging environment that has seen many of its peers struggle, according to a report by Reuters.
Hedge funds upped their purchases of technology stocks at the fastest pace seen in more than a year last week, driven by an increase in both long positions and short covering, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Digital asset investment products saw outflows for the third consecutive week last week totalling $435m, marking the largest outflows since March this year, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by George Weiss in 1978, has filed for bankruptcy about two months after telling clients it was winding down operations, according to a report by Bloomberg.
