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Goldman Sachs-backed Petershill Partners Plc, which holds minority stakes in hedge funds and private equity firms, is to delist from the London Stock Exchange and return $921m to investors, valuing the company at $4.5bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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TOP STORY: Activist Elliott Investment Management’s proposal to spin-off PepsiCo’s global bottling operations as part of its plan to increase shareholder value, could face opposition from other investors in the business, according to a report by Reuters.
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When Donald Trump recently called for US companies to abandon quarterly reporting in favour of semi-annual disclosures, he inadvertently reignited one of finance’s most persistent debates. “China has a 50-to-100-year view on management of a company, whereas we run our companies on a quarterly basis,” the president posted. “Not good!!!”
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Former BlackRock Asia-Pacific credit chief Neeraj Seth is seeking to raise up to $700m for a new credit-focused hedge fund through his recently launched firm, 3R Investment Management, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Hedge funds have ramped up bullish bets on crude at the fastest pace in three months, with escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe driving a renewed risk premium into oil markets, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Man Group, the world’s largest publicly listed hedge fund manager, has entered the US ETF market with the launch of its first standalone products — a move that brings hedge fund-style credit strategies to a broader investor base.
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DE Shaw & Co, the New York-headquartered tech-driven hedge fund giant, is raising $3bn–$5bn for its new Cogence Fund, marking the firm’s first multi-strategy hedge fund run entirely by human traders rather than algorithms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Global quantitative hedge fund firm Qube Research & Technologies has begun charging some employees performance fees on their personal allocations to the firm’s funds, bringing them in line with external investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Ahead of the 2025 US Hedgeweek® Funds of the Future Summit, Manas Pratap Singh, Head of Research, Hedgeweek® asks whether hedge fund conferences are worth the cost in 2025? Here’s what the data tells us.
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Taconic Capital Advisors is closing its $1.8bn multi-strategy Opportunity Fund in a sweeping overhaul that will see the $4.5bn manager refocus on North American credit and merger arbitrage investments, according to a report by Bloomberg citing a recent letter sent to investors.
