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Global financial services firm Wilshire is to acquire Lyxor Asset Management, a provider of risk-managed, alternative and hedge fund investment solutions to institutional investors in North America, from European asset manager Amundi.
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October 2023 | How are managed futures and systematic strategies performing – and what are they focused on going forward in an era of rapid technological change and innovation? Hedgeweek’s ‘Trend following’ Insights report offers a data-led update on the key regulatory challenges facing CCOs and an appraisal of the ways they’re staying informed.
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US equity long-short hedge fund portfolio managers are taking fewer directional bets, with the level at which swings in the S&P 500 affect their bottom line having fallen to the lowest seen in six years, according to a report by Reuters.
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Daniel Och has ended his long-running feud with Sculptor Capital Management by agreeing to back a sweetened bid for the hedge fund he founded from real estate investment firm Rithm Capital, according to a report by The Financial Times.
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Izzy Englander, the billionaire founder of Millennium Management LLC, was quoted saying that there is “a talent bubble” in the hedge fund industry in part to long non-compete clauses which is forcing funds to pay more for better talent, according to a report by Business Insider.
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Hedgeweek has announced the winners of its US Awards 2023, which recognises excellence among fund managers and service providers in the US across a wide range of categories.
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Hedgeweek and Private Equity Wire have announced the winners of the European Credit Awards, which recognise excellence in fund performance and service provider excellence across credit funds.
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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.
