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Assets under management at Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund, fell by $5.6bn (£4.2bn) in the first two weeks of April to $167bn, as market volatility hit the asset manager’s strategies, according to a report by City AM.
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Elliott Investment Management has taken a significant activist position in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), amassing a stake valued at over $1.5bn and making the $70bn hedge fund one of HPE’s largest shareholders, according to a report by Reuters.
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Ahead of our Funds of the Future Summit, Hedgeweek spoke with Timothee Consigny (pictured) about his role as CTO at H2O Asset Management. In the conversation, Consigny shared insights into the evolving AI landscape, real-world use cases, and his advice for fellow hedge fund managers. He’ll be speaking at the summit during The Smart Stack: Levelling the Field with AI and Data workshop, where he’ll explore how emerging hedge funds can leverage AI, data analytics, and advanced technology to compete with established players, streamline operations, and scale efficiently.
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Quant-driven hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies has disclosed a $105m short position in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, according to a report by Reuters, citing a regulatory filing with Germany’s federal gazette, Bundesanzeiger.
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Hedge funds and asset managers are piling into bullish yen positions at a record pace, as renewed US tariffs under President Donald Trump spark a flight to safe-haven assets and cast doubt over the Bank of Japan’s tightening trajectory, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Global long-short equity hedge funds underperformed sharply during the recent US stock market surge but showed resilience as markets turned volatile again, according to a report by Reuters citing prime brokerage data from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, has weighed in on the escalating tariff tensions, urging the US to strike a trade agreement with China and shift focus toward fiscal consolidation, according to reports.
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The US Treasury market – long viewed as the global bedrock of financial safety – is flashing red as hedge funds dump positions en masse, triggering sharp selloffs and prompting fears of a broader liquidity crunch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Edge Funds | In 2013, while emerging markets beta was performing well, Sandglass Capital Co-Founder and CIO, Genna Lozovsky, and his Co-Founder on the business side, Michelle Kelner (pictured), identified what they saw as a greater opportunity – alpha in stressed and distressed credit within emerging markets.
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Pershing Square Holdings, the London-listed investment trust run by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, has dropped 15% year-to-date as the escalating US trade war reverberates through global markets and punishes the fund’s concentrated equity positions, according to a report by the Financial Times.
