Hedge fund manager Chris Hohn demands Airbus drop Atos deal – letter
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn has written to Airbus demanding it drop a deal to purchase a minority stake in French IT consulting firm…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn has written to Airbus demanding it drop a deal to purchase a minority stake in French IT consulting firm…
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge funds betting against stocks in the technology sector rushed to unwind those trades in the first half of February as markets rallied,…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Investments by global pension schemes fell to the smallest proportion in five years of overall hedge fund assets at the end of last year,…
By David Randall and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Big Short” investor Michael Burry, Farallon Capital Management, and Coatue Management were among the prominent hedge fund managers who took…
(Reuters) – Hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group said on Tuesday it had raised a total of $1.1 billion for two of its new funds focused on investing in private…
By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – After seeing record outflows in 2022, Asia-focused hedge funds posted a 5.3% gain in a January rally to mark their best monthly performance…
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global hedge funds posted a solid 2.8% gain in January, but they missed out on the stellar rally that broader stock market indexes…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The hedge fund industry trade association MFA on Thursday backed an activist investment firm’s push to reverse “draconian” amendments to medical device company…
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – The mood at the annual ‘Miami hedge fund week’ gatherings this week was as bright as the winter sunshine, with one notable dark…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked some major hedge funds to review certain employees’ personal mobile phones for evidence of business dealings on unapproved channels, Bloomberg News reported…
By Stefania Spezzati and Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Eisler Capital has recruited Damien Bombelli, whose background in commodities could help the hedge fund bolster a less profitable part of…
By Summer Zhen Hong Kong (Reuters) – Hedge funds that bet on a swift shift in the country’s zero-COVID and regulatory policies in late 2022 while the stock market was…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds trading crypto currencies tracked by index provider BarclayHedge ended 2022 down almost 50%, the research firm said on Tuesday, a sign that…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein doesn’t believe Credit Suisse will default on its debt but if it does, the derivatives trade he has on…
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge funds last year posted their worst performance since 2018, mainly dragged down by equities as portfolio managers struggled to place their bets…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge fund fees have dropped to their lowest level since the global financial crisis in 2008, research firm Hedge Fund Research (HFR) said on…
Crypto Firm With Ties To Sam Bankman-Fried’s Failed Hedge Fund Weighing Bankruptcy: REPORT John Hugh DeMastri on January 5, 2023 Prominent crypto firm Genesis Global Trading — which had major…
By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) – The top 5% of the world’s hedge fund managers are set to take 80-90% of investor inflows in 2023, according to new research from Agecroft…
(Refiles to fix typos in paragraphs 2 and 4) NEW YORK (Reuters) -D.E. Shaw’s largest hedge fund gained 24.7% last year after fees, outperforming average gains for the industry in…
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Summer Zhen (Reuters) – Global hedge funds are set to register their worst returns in 14 years in 2022 after aggressive U.S. interest rate rises hit…
By Carolina Mandl (Reuters) – Hedge fund Citadel expects to return about $7 billion in profits to its investors in the first week of January after a stellar performance this…
By Summer Zhen and Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asia’s hedge funds are heading for their worst showing in a dozen years, with long-short stockpickers wrongfooted by volatility in…
Hedge Fund Billionaire Sues The IRS Over Leaked Tax Records Trevor Schakohl on December 13, 2022 Investment firm Citadel’s CEO Kenneth Griffin filed a legal complaint against the Internal Revenue…
(Updates the company description in the fourth-to-last paragraph) By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – With traditional equity and bond portfolios underwhelming investors this year and China’s market returns letting…
(Reuters) -U.S. hedge fund Engine Capital on Wednesday urged Univar Solutions Inc to consider a sale or other strategic options, days after Germany’s Brenntag SE said it was in preliminary…