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Turbulent Markets Jolt Currency Hedge Funds From Decade-Long Slumber
Date: October 18, 2022
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Veteran hedge fund manager John Taylor describes one of his favourite Gary Larson cartoons, where one vulture sitting on an animal carcass says to another as more descend: “good friends flying in from all over…this is the best of times”. There is, he says jokingly, a resemblance to the...
Market Turmoil a Boon for Trend-Following Hedge Funds
Date: October 17, 2022
By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) – Trend-following hedge funds are capitalising on market disruption and geopolitical unrest, with funds such as Graham Capital Management, Aspect Capital, AlphaSimplex and AQR Capital Management all near or over 40% higher for the year. Such funds profit by buying or selling when the markets make big moves and by riding...
Hedge Funds Suffer $32 Billion of Outflows in Q2 -Data
Date: October 5, 2022
By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) -Investors pulled $32 billion from hedge funds in the second quarter of 2022, spooked by inflation, geopolitical tensions and the war in Ukraine, according to a report from data provider Preqin. The outflows were the largest that the $4.1 trillion hedge fund industry had seen since the start of the coronavirus...
Hedge Funds Suffer Big Outflows in Q2 – Data
Date: August 25, 2022
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Investors yanked a net $7.8 billion out of hedge funds in the second quarter, industry data published on Wednesday showed, as volatile markets sent many looking for safer places to keep their cash. Large investors like pension funds, asset managers and family offices pulled more money out of hedge...
Funds Begin Parking Sanction-Hit Russian Assets in ‘side Pockets’
Date: August 12, 2022
By Carolyn Cohn and Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest money managers are talking to investors and regulators about stripping Russian assets from their funds, helping them unlock billions of dollars of investments which became illiquid due to the war in Ukraine. So-called “side pockets”, used by hedge funds in the...
Einhorn’s Greenlight Takes Stake in Twitter – Letter
Date: August 1, 2022
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) – Hedge fund Greenlight Capital said it took a new stake in Twitter last month as the social media company sued to force Elon Musk to buy the company even as the billionaire entrepreneur said he has changed his mind about the deal. Greenlight founder David Einhorn wrote to investors...