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Hedge fund returns held up well in the face of ongoing downward trends for some markets in the third quarter, seeing only a small decline overall, with some specific strategies recording strong gains, according to data from Citco.
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Hedge funds are maintaining their bearish stance on equity markets despite the recent stock market rally prompting them to unwind short bets at a rapid rate, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Microsoft has replaced Amazon.com as the favourite long position for hedge funds, according to a report by Dow Jones Newswires, with Goldman Sachs analysis revealing that 82 funds now have Microsoft as a top ten portfolio holding.
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Man Group is preparing to launch a dedicated cryptocurrency hedge fund despite the current turmoil in the market sparked by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s digital exchange operator FTX, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Over two-thirds (67%) of hedge funds recorded positive returns in October, marking a significant turnaround from the 31% that managed to end the previous month in positive territory, according to a report by Forbes.
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​​​​​​​Ireland is now the most shorted market in Europe at 46.29%, followed by France with 11.65% and the United Kingdom with 10.78%, according to latest monthly pan-European short position data from SEI Novus.
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TCI Fund Management wants Google parent Alphabet to reduce costs by cutting its headcount in a bid to adjust to slower growth according to a report by Reuters. The activist investor also wants the company to cut losses at its self-driving unit Waymo.
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LMR Partners has become the latest hedge fund to announce plans to open an office in Dubai following the likes of Millennium Management and ExodusPoint Capital Management in establishing a presence in the emirate, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Bridgewater Associates chalked up further losses on its bets on Chinese stocks in the third quarter of the year as Beijing’s continuing zero-Covid policy and monetary tightening policy in developed markets prompted the biggest sell-off since 2015, according to a report by The South China Morning Post.
