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Hedge funds have made $1.25 billion by betting against the shares of Danish company Amnu’s top shorts, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The hedge fund Tiger Global has lost $17 billion throughout this year’s tech selloff, one of the biggest dollar declines for a hedge fund in history, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has been appointed to provide fiduciary management services to two UK pension schemes within the Short Brothers Common Investment Fund (Common Investment Fund) with assets totalling £1.6 billion.
Hedge funds posted gains in April, as global equities and bonds suffered historic declines, accelerating an unprecedented hedge fund outperformance trend driven by powerful, broad-based gains across macro sub-strategies, according to data released today by HFRI.
7/10 of UK adults, with at least one investment outside of their pension, say they would be more likely to choose an investment in a fund or organisation if they knew it was having a positive social or environmental impact, according to research from Big Society Capital.
INSIGHT REPORT
Hedge funds trading technology companies endured a bumpy start to 2022, with bets on a slew of blue-chip stocks souring as investors took flight amid fears of rising inflation and interest rates coupled with concerns over US economic growth.
Marshall Wace maintained its position as the manager with the greatest short exposure in April, accounting for 21.99% of registered short positions (up from 15.69% at the end of February), according to the latest monthly pan-European short position data from SEI Novus.
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company accounted for 9.06% and AKO Capital LLP for 8.07%.
Marshall Wace has over double the proportion of aggregated short positions of the manager with the second highest European short exposure. Marshall Wace is short a number of prominent retail names such as Adidas, H&M, Burberry, Hello Fresh and Dutch supermarket, Ahold Delhaize and
INSIGHT REPORT
Research from SigTech’s 2021 annual Hedge Fund Research Report saw 80 per cent of hedge fund managers expecting institutional investors to increase their allocation to quant strategies over the following year, and 86 per cent expecting quant hedge fund strategies to increase allocations over the following five years.
Rio de Janeiro-based hedge fund manager Adam’s flagship fund suffered it’s biggest monthly loss on record in April, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Tiger Global’s main hedge fund posted a 15.2% drop in April bringing losses year to date to almost 44%, according to a report by BusinessTimes.
