As firms compete with frontier labs for elite researchers, building an in-house AI capability is becoming as much a hiring challenge as a technical one
Leopold Aschenbrenner has told investors that his AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, will no longer use bank borrowing to finance its investment positions following the fund’s sharp July drawdown, according to a report by the FT.
: Ken Griffin’s Citadel has acquired the majority of the public equity portfolio held by AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, following a sharp reversal in technology stocks that forced the specialist manager to significantly reduce risk, according to a report
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness explored selling stakes in privately held technology companies before agreeing to transfer most of its public equity portfolio to Citadel, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Senior Millennium Management portfolio manager Farzad Kassam is preparing to launch his own hedge fund next year, with backing from Izzy Englander’s multi-strategy investment firm in the latest example of established platforms seeding new managers, according to a report by
A hedge fund managed by Hong Kong-based Jupiter Research Capital lost more than 40% of its value in July, highlighting the severe impact that the global sell-off in AI-related stocks has had on quantitative investment strategies, according to a sport
Activist hedge fund Jana Partners has intensified its campaign at payments technology company Fiserv, urging the business to conduct a comprehensive review of its operations and portfolio while renewing calls for changes to the board, according to a report by
Asia-focused equity hedge funds are on track to record their largest monthly losses on record after a sharp sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks triggered a rapid unwinding of one of this year’s most profitable investment themes, according to a report
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to begin publishing a daily summary of trading activity in UK-listed equities, marking the latest step in its efforts to improve market transparency ahead of the introduction of a consolidated tape, according
Hong Kong-based hedge fund Trafalgar Capital Management has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Michael Rothlin as chief investment officer responsible for its macro trading strategies, according to a report by FX Markets.
