Simon Sadler’s $4.8bn Asian hedge fund Segantii Capital Management has said it will wind down and return capital to its investors “in an orderly manner”, with about 140 employees across Hong Kong, New York and London affected by the decision.
Hedge funds experienced their first negative month of the year in April, with a weighted average return of -0.7%, according to new data from Citco, but remain in positive territory for 2024 with a year-to-date weighted average return of 6.5%.
Peconic Partners, the $1.8bn long-short hedge fund firm run by Bill Harnisch, has continued a four-year winning run so far in 2024, with the fund up 18% year-to-date, extending a run of outperformance that includes a 26% gain in 2022
Hyperion Decimus, a digital asset management firm and a sponsor of a multi-strategy crypto hedge fund, has launched the HD CoinDesk Acheilus Fund, a strategy that will invest in digital assets leveraging institutional grade fiduciary management.
BlockTower Capital, an investment firm with $1.7bn in AUM, has experienced a security breach in its main hedge fund, leading to partial losses, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling $130m last week, the first positive flows seen in five weeks, according to the latest digital assets fund flows weekly report from CoinShares.
Paris-based quantitative asset management firm TOBAM’s patented LBRTY strategy has surpassed $100m in AUM just six months after its launch, following an investment by a US-based endowment fund.
A combination of higher interest rates and lagging performance has prompted European retail investors to reduce their hedge fund investments, with assets under management in alternative UCITS currently at an eight-year low, according to data from Kepler Absolute Hedge.
Hedge funds saw an estimated $9.9bn in investor withdrawals during March, a big increase on the $780m seen in February as the industry’s run of net outflows stretched to 22 consecutive months, according to a new report from Nasdaq eVestment.
Hedge funds advanced in April as equities declined, led by macro strategies, which extended their first quarter gains through the month, and the industry’s largest funds, with the HFRI Macro Asset Weighted Index advancing 2.6%.
