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Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has taken a significant position in Barrick Gold, making it one of the miner’s top ten shareholders with a holding likely worth over $1bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Marshall Wace is planning to return roughly $3.1bn to investors across two of its flagship hedge fund strategies, joining a growing list of major managers choosing to curb asset growth to protect performance, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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In Alternative Views, Hedgeweek goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on hedge funds. In this episode we speak to Bradley Wickens, Founding Partner of emerging markets-focussed Broad Reach Investment Management, about the opportunities for hedge funds in this space.
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Boaz Weinstein’s (pictured) Saba Capital Management has been actively selling credit protection on big tech names as lenders and asset managers rush to hedge growing concerns around the sector’s debt-fuelled AI spending spree, according to a report by Reuters.
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Discipline has dethroned genius in the hedge fund allocation game.
When Hedgeweek® asked 50 global hedge fund allocators in November what separates winning from losing funds heading into 2026, the responses clustered around a clear winner: investment discipline. One in three offered some variation of this phrase, unprompted, making it the single most common answer.
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Starboard Value has fully exited its position in Pfizer, winding down the activist campaign it began last year to push for governance and performance improvements at the US drugmaker, according to a report by Reuters.
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Major hedge-fund firms are expanding into private-markets investing, leveraging their risk-pricing capabilities and talent infrastructure to compete in areas traditionally dominated by buy-out and venture-capital players, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Hedge fund manager Two Sigma Investments has emerged as a leading investor in China after its equity strategy in the country rose approximately 52% through 30 September, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company’s total assets under management in China has reached CNY10bn ($1.4bn).
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Activist investor Elliott Investment Management has quietly built a significant stake of almost 5% in Toyota Industries Corp, joining a growing chorus of shareholders opposing the proposed JPY16,300-per-share ($30.5bn) buyout offer led by Akio Toyoda as too low, according to a report by Bloomberg.
