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Russell Investments, Mercer, and Redington are to headline the final panel at Hedgeweek’s 2024 European Leadership Summit, giving investors the last word of a highly anticipated event packed with the hedge fund industry’s leading investment managers.   Â
The Hedgeweek US Digital Assets Summit 2024 speaker line up continues to grow, with Coinbase Asset Management COO Jasmine Burgess and Grayscale Investments MD Zach Pandl among the latest industry thought leaders added to the roster.  Â
Global hedge funds were positioned to profit from last week’s plunge in US regional banking stocks, according to a report by Reuters citing a JPMorgan prime brokerage note to clients.Â
Arrowpoint Investment Partners, a new Asia-focused hedge fund headed by former Millennium Management Asia Co-CEO Jonathan Xiong, has secured backing from Blackstone ahead of what is expected to be one of the region’s biggest launches of the year.
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the city’s international financial centre, embarked on a trade mission to the US last week, in response to “unprecedented demand” from major US-based global asset managers in the hedge fund, private equity and venture capital space.Â
As ever, hedge fund news in the first month of the year was dominated by last year’s returns, with lots of positives from the likes of Citadel (15.3%), Millennium Management (10%), DE Shaw (10%), Rokos Asset Management (8.8%) et al. Taken in the context of the S&P 500’s 23% gain for the year though, and the Nasdaq’s even more formidable 43% return on the back of the continuing tech-driven rally in US stocks, their high single- or low-double digit returns weren’t that much to shout about.
Institutional investor interest in catastrophe bonds, one of the riskiest corners of the debt market, is on the increase on the back of reports of record returns at hedge funds including Fermat Capital Management, Tenax Capital and Tangency Capital, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Activist hedge fund firm Elliott Management wants Japan’s biggest property group, Mitsui Fudosan, to launch a JPY1tn ($6.8bn) share buyback scheme in a bid to improve the company’s market valuation, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The first Danish conviction in the ‘Cum-Ex’ tax evasion scandal has seen a hedge fund trader sentenced to six years behind bars for his role in a scheme that cost the country’s treasury an estimated DKK12.7bn ($1.9bn), according to a report by Bloomberg.
Pascal Guttieres, a former UBS Group banker, is launching a new Hong Kong-based hedge fund, Viridian Asset Management, that will bet on a revival in Asia stock sales after volumes last year fell to the lowest seen in a decade, according to a report by Bloomberg.
