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By Kim Ljung Andersen, Head of Institutional Product Solutions, CMC Connect – It’s no secret that competition among hedge funds has become increasingly intense. The ramifications are manifold, but one outcome is clear – it has become harder for investment firms to find success by specialising in a single trading instrument or asset class.
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London-based multi-strategy firm Eisler Capital has become the latest hedge fund to limit the amount of money investors can withdraw from the firm’s funds, as demand for its services increases, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country’s securities watchdog, wants brokerages to limit the amount of leverage available to hedge funds that borrow large sums of money via a complex derivative business to trade stocks, according to a report by Reuters.
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In today’s demanding market conditions, having a competitive advantage as a hedge fund manager is vital. Competition for investments and investors is fierce, while differentiation within peer groups is subtle. Success is as much built on an accumulation of small improvements driven by analysis as it is on one or two larger changes. As such, data lies at the heart of establishing a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Hedgeweek has announced the winners of the European Emerging Manager Awards 2023, which recognise excellence among hedge fund emerging fund managers and service providers.
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Excessive payouts to poach staff made by some multi-strategy majors are fuelling a talent war in the global hedge fund industry, according to Marshall Wace Co-founder Paul Marshall and PAG Co-founder Chris Gradel.
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Macro strategies led hedge fund industry gains in October with the HFRI Macro (Asset Weighted) Index advancing +0.7% to record its third consecutive month of positive performance, bringing the trailing three-month return to an impressive gain of +4.2%.
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Having spent much of the previous month adjusting to the US Federal Reserve’s apparent change to a ‘higher for longer’, approach to interest rates, and the subsequent spike in market volatility, hedge fund managers were faced with another switch in October as US equities went on a slide, with both the S&P and Nasdaq entering correction territory, falling more than 10% from their July highs.
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Man Group, the world’s biggest publicly listed hedge fund, is sticking by the contrarian bearish stance it adopted during an emerging-market rally earlier this year, when it predicted a yet-to-materialise “violent” sell-off, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Hedge funds and private equity firms have fired the first salvo in their legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over what they see as a power grab by the commission over the adoption of new rules they say the regulator lacks the authority to impose.
