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The incorporation of environmental and social metrics into investment strategies is becoming increasingly common among hedge fund managers, according to a report by Bloomberg citing research by analysts at UBS Group.
Despite bonus season looming large, Goldman Sachs has seen several staff depart its London-based rates trading business to take up new positions at hedge fund firms in recent weeks, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Hedgeweek’s fourth annual European Leadership Summit 2024 is set to feature some of the world’s largest hedge funds, with a host of high-profile firms joining the London event’s speaker line up.Â
The BlackRock Strategic Equity Hedge Fund, which is managed by star manager Alister Hibbert, was back in positive territory last year with a double-digit gain, having suffered its worst ever annual loss in the previous year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
San Francisco-based activist hedge fund firm ValueAct Capital, whose past targets have included Salesforce and Microsoft, scored a big gain form investors last year with the firm chalking up a 39% return, according to a report by Reuters.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally confirmed that it is to permit the creation and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, with issuers and analysts anticipating billions of dollars of new flows as a result.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management has named seven new Partners, including 35-year-old former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Dan Avery, who joined the firm as an index trader in October 2020, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Rokos Capital Management, the macro trading hedge fund firm founded by Chris Rokos, overturned early-year losses to end 2023 with an 8.8% gain, despite suffering a loss in the final month of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
FinchTrade, a Swiss company specialising in liquidity provision and investment tools in the cryptocurrency sector, has formed a new partnership with Cypator, an institutional crypto Electronic Communication Network.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management has provided $3bn to support the launch of Taula Capital, a new macro hedge fund, by former Millennium portfolio manager Diego Magia, according to a report by the Financial Times.
