Activist hedge fund firm JANA Partners, which in the past has engaged in campaigns to force change at companies including Whole Foods and Frontier Communications, recorded a 31% gain for 2023, according to a report by Reuters.
Chris Rokos and his fellow partners at Rokos Capital Management paid themselves £445m ($563m) for the year ended March 2023, after the macro hedge fund produced its best ever gains in 2022, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Sean Gambino, who closed his own Heron Bay Capital hedge fund firm in 2022 to join Eisler Capital, is leaving the multi-strategy investment firm to set up on his own again, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hamza Lemssouguer, a former star trader at Credit Suisse, notched up a 32% return with his $2.7bn Arini credit master fund in 2023, making it one of the top performing credit strategies, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Lone Pine Capital, the $15bn Greenwich, Connecticut-headquartered hedge fund firm founded by Tiger Cub Stephen Mandel, bounced back with strong returns in 2023, following a wave of client redemptions and big losses in 2022, according to a report by Business
The BlackRock Strategic Equity Hedge Fund, which is managed by star manager Alister Hibbert, was back in positive territory last year with a double-digit gain, having suffered its worst ever annual loss in the previous year, according to a report
San Francisco-based activist hedge fund firm ValueAct Capital, whose past targets have included Salesforce and Microsoft, scored a big gain form investors last year with the firm chalking up a 39% return, according to a report by Reuters.
Rokos Capital Management, the macro trading hedge fund firm founded by Chris Rokos, overturned early-year losses to end 2023 with an 8.8% gain, despite suffering a loss in the final month of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management has provided $3bn to support the launch of Taula Capital, a new macro hedge fund, by former Millennium portfolio manager Diego Magia, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Hedge fund performance surged through year-end, with December showing an acceleration in gains driven by a decline in inflation, falling bond yields, and structural developments in cryptocurrency, according to HFR.
