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Antonio Belgioioso has joined Goldman Sachs as a Rates Trader, having spent the past four years in a Macro Rates Portfolio Manager role at global macro hedge fund firm Brevan Howard, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
CCData, an FCA-authorised benchmark administrator and provider of digital asset data solutions and settlement indices, has partnered with BMLL Technologies, an independent provider of harmonised level 3 historical data and analytics.
Hedge funds continued their end-of-year momentum into the first month of 2024 amid escalating geopolitical tensions, with fixed income-based strategies leading the way in terms of returns, according to performance data from HFR.
Pershing Square Capital Management’s Bill Ackman exited his position in US home improvement retailer Lowe’s, after it generated a net $1.3bn profit for his fund’s investors, according to a report by Reuters.
Bloomberg has launched a fully automated electronic workflow for the trading and reporting of EUR Interest Rate Swap v Bond Future contracts through Eurex, allowing sell-side participants acting as executing brokers to facilitate a trade using a single interface.
Rob Furdak, Man Group’s CIO overseeing ESG assets, believes screening for environmental, social and governance risks is not “just to try to make the world a better place”, it also helps improve the “investment process” at the world’s largest listed hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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.
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.
