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  • March 15, 2024

Millennium-backed fund bolsters fixed-income team with BofA hire

Ilana Kaufman is reported to have been hired as a portfolio manager.

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  • March 14, 2024

Hedge funds, PE firms discussing ways to deal with SEC messaging crackdown

Citadel, KKR & Co. and Blackstone Inc. are among the firms that have been talking about strategies to blunt SEC penalties related to the use of messaging apps.

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  • February 26, 2024

Hedge funds are taking profits from elevated tech stocks

Selling in the sector is occurring at the fastest pace in seven months, but what are funds buying?

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  • February 12, 2024

The case for ‘retailization’ of alts is getting stronger: BNY Mellon

Stronger performance, growing life expectancies, and easing regulatory barriers are among the trends supporting increased adoption of alternatives.

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  • February 9, 2024

SEC approves rule requiring hedge fund strategy disclosures

Funds will be required to share more information with regulators.

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  • February 6, 2024

SEC to add ‘dealer’ tag to hedge funds trading Treasuries

Dozens of firms may face increased scrutiny and compliance costs in regulatory overhaul.

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  • January 8, 2024

North America leads hedge funds confidence despite quarterly decrease

Index reveals confidence drop was led by hedged equity and global macro managers.

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  • January 4, 2024

Where have all the hedge funds gone? Advisors weigh in

Not too long ago financial advisors would bend over backwards to get their high-net-worth clients into exclusive hedge funds.

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  • November 6, 2023

Hedge funds’ extended short positions on Treasuries wrongly timed

CFTC data shows bets persisted even though the cash bonds had rallied the week before.

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  • August 30, 2023

Hedge funds are expanding basis trades, data suggests

Surge in short sales of US Treasury futures hints at a return of the tactic.

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  • August 28, 2023

Hedge funds show growing optimism for EM equities

Funds most bullish on futures since 2020.

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  • August 15, 2023

Big tech in focus for hedge funds in Q2

Meta, Microsoft, and Apple were among the top picks for funds.

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  • June 14, 2023

New iCapital platform gives advisors turnkey access to alternative investments

Marketplace combines hundreds of existing platforms run by providers of alternative investments into a single network.

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Hedge funds brace for $20 billion of redemptions, Citco says

Only 40% of hedge funds globally made money in the first quarter, compared with 61% in the previous three months.

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  • June 29, 2020

Hedge funds rushing to cover short positions on U.S. stocks

Short interest as a portion of shares outstanding in the $266 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF had fallen to 4.9% Friday from 6.7% at the end of May

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  • August 7, 2018

Investors rekindle love affair with hedge funds

To get back into investors' good graces, funds have had to alter traits like their liquidity, fees — even their overall structure.

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The Takeaway: Hedgies now offering expert performance chasing

Portfolio Are we in a bubble? Let’s ask Russell!  (iShares) Michael Santoli: Of all…

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Institutions keen on activist hedges

Activist hedge funds have pulled in at least $2 billion in new assets from institutional investors over the past two years, with a marked acceleration in pace in the second half of 2011 and so far in 2012.

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Hedge funds are using ETFs despite stigma

Hedge fund managers are the third-biggest institutional users of exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, but they are reluctant to talk about it.

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  • December 29, 2011

Emerging hedge fund performance questioned

Emerging-hedge-fund managers are getting more attention from institutional investors because they tend to produce better returns than larger, more established funds, but industry insiders disagree about the extent of the outperformance.