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Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, has made profits of about $200m from his bet against thirty year US treasury bonds, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager $9.42tn in AUM, is planning to liquidate its first hedge fund, the Obsidian fund after twenty seven years of operation, according to a report by CityWire.
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Short positions in the gold market are falling, as money managers are increasing their speculative gross long positions in Comex gold futures, leading to the second-biggest ever short covering rally on record, according to a report by Kitco, citing data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Doug Haynes, a former President at Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management until he resigned in 2018 having been named a defendant in a sexual discrimination lawsuit which was settled in 2020, is looking to raise $1bn for his new fund Norias, according to a report by Business Insider.
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Mark Edwards, the Chief Executive Officer of Rokos Capital Management, is to step down from the role in the first quarter of 2023, with a small group of executives then set to share senior management responsibilities at the firm, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Itau Asset Management, a Brazil-based money manager inspired by Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management, has appointed Bruno Serra, a former director at Brazil’s central bank, to raise money for a new family of funds in its mulitmesas (multi-strategy) unit.
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Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has begun agitating for change at News Corp, including a $7bn (£5.7bn) sell-off of the company’s online property business, having built a stake in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, according to a report by The Guardian.
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Sales of food, beverage and tobacco stocks by global hedge funds hit the fastest pace seen in 11 weeks last week, as the yields for US Treasuries surged, according to a report by Reuters, citing data from Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage division.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has finalised new rules that mean hedge funds will now have to report significantly more information about their short-selling activities, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Rokos Capital Management, the hedge fund firm founded by macro trader Chris Rokos, recorded a 2.4% gain for its flagship fund in September, taking YTD gains to 7%, despite double-digit losses earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
