02 Oct 2026
MENA hedge funds lead emerging markets amid global interest rates surge, says HFR
Hedge funds focused on the Middle East and North Africa led emerging markets performance through August, with the HFRI MENA Index gaining…
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Hedge funds up euro short bets as amid elevated French fiscal risks
Hedge funds are increasing their use of options to position for further weakness in the euro against the US dollar as political uncertainty…
Citadel founder-backed super PAC spends $4.9m in Florida Senate race
A super political action committee (super PAC) backed by Citadel founder Ken Griffin has spent nearly $5m in the Florida Senate race,…
Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha up 18.4% YTD as macro strategy rebounds
Bridgewater Associates’ flagship Pure Alpha macro fund gained 18.4% during the first nine months of 2026, according to a report by Reuters…
01 Oct 2026
Brevan Howard Digital's CIO on what it actually takes to run digital assets
Chris Rayner-Cook is clear about what running digital assets actually asks of a manager, and it is less about the instruments than most…
Former GIC trader targets $300m for new commodity-focused fund launch
Hao Dong, a former commodity portfolio manager at Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, is preparing to launch Windrise Capital, a new hedge…
Ex-Morgan Stanley quant head leaves Rokos after one year
Yingyi Chu, a former senior quantitative strategist at Morgan Stanley, appears to have departed macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management…
Distressed hedge funds buy $190m of Brightline debt from Nuveen
Distressed-debt hedge funds Diameter Capital Partners, Redwood Capital and FourSixThree Capital have acquired about $190m of municipal…
Marshall Wace pushes back on Citadel document demands in Shatz dispute
Marshall Wace has accused rival hedge fund Citadel of making excessively broad and burdensome demands for documents as the two firms…
Trading Technologies expands into global equities and options with TRAFiX acquisition
Trading Technologies has acquired equities and equity options trading technology provider TRAFiX, expanding the capital markets technology…
Bank of England flags spillover risks from elevated hedge fund gilt leverage
The Bank of England (BoE) has warned that elevated hedge fund leverage in the UK government bond market, combined with exposures to…
Citadel's Griffin Pledges $3bn to Carnegie Mellon for Miami Campus
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University to support its Pittsburgh operations and establish a new…
Point72 appoints former JPMorgan equities risk chief to lead risk technology
Point72 has hired Ashot Ordukhanyan, a former co-head of JPMorgan's equities central risk book, as head of risk technology in New York,…
30 Sep 2026
Where deep modelling meets mortgage credit
Greg Valli has been part of two of the three decades of Ellington Management Group. During that period, the firm has enjoyed a rapid rise…
Crowded Treasury shorts raise prospect of sharp squeeze
Growing bets on further rises in US Treasury yields are increasing the risk of a rapid reversal if incoming economic data points to a…
