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Polaris Capital Management has promoted Jason Crawshaw to Executive Vice President. He will now serve in an executive management position while retaining his existing role as a Portfolio Manager at the firm.
Bets that US regulators would be unable to stop Amgen Inc from completing its $28bn acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics have yielded big gains for hedge funds Pentwater Capital Management, HBK Investments and Farallon Capital Management, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Poor performance and investor withdrawals have seen assets at Pelham Capital, one of London’s major equity hedge fund sector players, plummet by more than three-quarters over the past three years, according to a report by The Financial Times.
BlueCrest Capital Management, the Mike Platt-founded hedge fund firm-turned family office, has added trading talent to its staff roster in Asia with a particular focus on Singapore, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Health reasons have prompted Jos Shaver, the founder of $3bn New York-based hedge fund firm Electron Capital Partners, to step-down from his role as Chief Investment officer and Managing Partner of the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments has published updates to the Insurance Open Protocol (IOP), which forms part of the Open Protocol risk aggregation templates first launched in 2011 to standardise the collection and representation of risk information of investment funds for investors.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows for the second week totalling $78m, the highest level seen since July, according to the latest Digital Asset Weekly Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
Two Sigma, a quant hedge fund with nearly $60bn in AUM, has put one of its researchers on leave after the employee tampered with the firm’s investment models, resulting in some clients losing money, according to a report by Bloomberg.
With supply and demand woes weighing heavily on agricultural pricing, hedge funds have upped their bearish bets on grain futures to the highest level seen since the early months of the pandemic, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Macro hedge funds posted uncorrelated gains and strong outperformance as volatility accelerated through September, with equities and bonds posting steep, correlated declines, according to the latest data from HFR.
