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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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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.
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and associated hedge fund firm Alameda Research, is facing a lengthy spell behind bars after jurors took just a few hours to return a guilty verdict on all seven criminal fraud charges against him.
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Ahead of next week’s European Emerging Managers Summit, Hedgeweek spoke with Anthony Lawler, CEO and CIO at Cadwyn Capital, and the former head of GAM Systematic, about the outlook facing smaller managers in the higher-for-longer environment, and also his views on risk management and the fundraising challenge.
