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Wall Street’s largest investment banks are enjoying record revenues from their prime brokerage businesses as elevated market volatility, strong hedge fund performance and growing demand for financing continue to fuel client activity, according to a report by Reuters.
King Street Capital Management has tightened redemption terms for its flagship hedge fund, transferring investors seeking to exit into a separate vehicle that will liquidate assets over time as the firm seeks to stabilise performance and reposition the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds maintained strong conviction in AI-related investments during the first half of 2026 despite heightened geopolitical tensions and inflation concerns, with positioning becoming increasingly concentrated in semiconductor and AI infrastructure stocks, according to new data from Hazeltree.
Chinese hedge funds that have generated outsized returns from this year’s artificial intelligence rally, including Everlead Capital and Hunjin Capital, are beginning to reduce exposure to some of the sector’s biggest winners, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The world’s largest multi-strategy hedge funds are increasingly looking beyond their own trading floors for investment ideas, creating a growing market in which smaller hedge fund managers are paid to supply alpha-generating signals, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds have suffered a sharp setback in recent weeks as crowded artificial intelligence-related trades unwound amid heightened market volatility, prompting many managers to reduce leverage and risk exposure, according to a report by Investing.com.
Aethon Fund has launched with $50m in initial capital, and is seeking to attract institutional investors with a systematic investment strategy that combines proprietary market signals with artificial intelligence-driven trade execution.
A weaker-than-expected US inflation reading has prompted a sharp repricing across interest rate markets, with hedge funds and other fixed income investors reducing expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise rates at its July meeting, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global investors are becoming increasingly bearish on UK equities as improving sentiment towards the global economy drives demand for cyclical and technology stocks, leaving London’s defensive market increasingly out of favour with hedge funds and other institutional investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds delivered strong returns in June while continuing to attract fresh investor capital, according to the latest data from SS&C GlobeOp.
