05 Mar 2024
Odey filing hints at possible comeback
Crispin Odey, the UK hedge fund manager forced to stand down from his eponymous firm last year following multiple allegations of sexual…
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Boaz Weinstein's hedge fund Saba increases stake in Hearts & Minds
New York-headquartered activist hedge fund Saba Capital has increased its stake in Hearts & Minds to nearly 10% as part of its…
DE Shaw betting on blind pools of bank risk
DE Shaw is one of a number of hedge funds buying exposure to blind pools of risk being sold by banks to reduce their regulatory burden, in…
04 Mar 2024
JPMorgan adds to hedge fund offering with LayerOne acquisition
JPMorgan Chase & Co has added to its service offering for hedge funds with the acquisition of LayerOne Financial, an investment…
Credit Suisse MD and Chief Engineer for Wealth Management joins quant Qube
London-based quant hedge fund firm Qube Research & Technologies has added Zohar Melamed, formerly Chief Engineer for Wealth Management…
Weiss to shutter multi-strat hedge fund after 46 years
Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, a New York-based hedge fund firm started in 1978 by Founder and Chief Executive George Weiss, is winding…
Propellant Digital appoints Head of Customer Success
Propellant Digital, a technology provider of fixed income transparency and trading data analytics to hedge funds, fixed income dealers and…
Hedge funds to benefit from bets on FTX claims
A number of distressed debt investors, including Attestor, Farallon Capital and Oaktree Capital, are set to benefit from bets that…
New Holland Capital appoints Partner and Head of Strategy
New Holland Capital, an alternative investment manager overseeing more than $5bn in discretionary absolute return strategies for…
Eurex plans to clear repo trades for hedge funds
Global clearinghouse Eurex Clearing plans to start clearing repo trades for hedge funds by mid-2024, according to a report by Bloomberg…
Millennium's commodities bets earned $600m in 2023
Commodities investments at Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management earned the multi-strategy major a solid $600m last year, but still far…
01 Mar 2024
CSRC crackdown sees China stock short positions fall by a third
A regulatory crackdown aimed at boosting investor confidence in China's ailing stock markets saw short positions shrink by a third in…
British hedge fund trader gets eight years for 'cum-ex' crimes
A British hedge fund trader has been sentenced to eight years behind bars by a Danish court after admitting his part in the so-called…
Big bet on European gas options fires Statar returns
Statar Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund specialising in natural gas trading founded by former Citadel and DE Shaw Trader Ron Ozer, has…
Millennium to appoint ex-Credit Suisse exec as Head of Equities, Asia
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management is set to name Ken Pang, the former Co-Head of Markets at Credit Suisse, as its new Head of…
