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EEX Group has reported a dynamic start to 2024, with the total monthly trading volume on its global power markets totalling 938.4 TWh, a 45% increase year-on-year and a 21% growth compared to December 2023 (775.4 TWh).
Multi-strategy major Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund recorded a 1.9% gain in January on the back of increased market volatility and amid uncertainty over the timing of interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, according to a report by CNBC.
Sebastian Stewart, a former Partner at Somerset Capital, has joined Pacific Asset Management as a Partner and Head of US Institutional Business Development. Based in the £4.5bn independent asset manager’s London office, he will report to Global Head of Institutional Sales, Mary Murphy.
Sam Finkelstein, a former Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has joined Citadel as a Senior Portfolio Manager to lead a new development program for its fixed income and macro business, according to a report by Reuters.
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.
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