Electron Capital Partners’ Global Fund is poised for its best performance in four years, rebounding from last year’s losses with a strong start in 2024, according to a report by Institutional Investor.
Fixed income arbitrage and global macro strategies were May’s top performers with weighted average returns of 2.7% and 2.6% respectively, according to the latest monthly report on hedge funds from Citco, the $1.8tn global alternative investment asset servicer.
Sona Asset Management, a London-based alternative asset manager investing across credit, has successfully raised $800m for its second capital solutions fund, targeting businesses struggling to secure financing amid a retreat by traditional banks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is planning to raise approximately $1bn for a new hedge fund focusing on AI, marking the firm’s first new hedge fund in decades, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling $2bn last week, bringing the current five-week run of inflows to $4.3bn, according to the latest digital assets fund flows weekly report from CoinShares.
Led by directional equity hedge and event-driven strategies, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index advanced 1.3% in May, with additional positive contributions from relative value arbitrage strategies offsetting a decline in macro strategies.
Citadel, Ken Griffin’s $63bn Miami-based hedge fund firm, which, according to LCH Investments, is the most profitable hedge fund of all time, lost money in May, with its flagship Wellington fund down 0.8%, according to a report by Business Insider.
Wellington, the flagship fund at Ken Griffin’s multi-strategy hedge fund firm Citadel, has surpassed $14.5bn in assets, having more than doubled in size over the past five years, according to a report by the South Florida Business Journal.
Private equity’s challenges in returning capital to clients are increasingly affecting hedge funds, which depend on the same pool of institutional investors including pension plans, foundations and endowments, for their fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Among alternative investments, hedge funds are used by a third (33%) of family offices globally for diversification purposes, according to the UBS Global Family Office Report 2024.
