26 Feb 2024
Activist Blackwells unveils five-point Disney tech plan
Activist hedge fund firm Blackwells Capital, a significant shareholder in the Walt Disney Company, has released an excerpt from its…
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Citigroup parts company with hedge fund sales boss
Citigroup is to part company with one of the most senior executives in its trading unit, with Conor Davis set to leave the company as part…
Euronext launches CAC 40 daily options
Euronext has launched new European-style daily options that are settled at the end of the trading day on the CAC 40 index, enabling…
Positive performance seen across most hedge fund strategies, says Citco
Some 88% of hedge funds have so far seen positive returns from across most strategies in 2024, building on 2023’s double-digit returns,…
23 Feb 2024
Banxia's Li cautions on small caps
Li Bei, Founder of Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center, one of China's top macro hedge fund firms, has warned investors that the…
Rokos continues hiring spree with two more appointments
Rokos Capital Management, the London-based hedge fund firm founded by Chris Rokos, has continued its recent hiring spree with the…
Citadel earned over $4bn from commodities bets in 2023
Profits last year at multi-strategy hedge fund major Citadel were boosted by a bumper 12 months for the firm's commodities trading…
Snapper Creek launches physical LPG brokerage desk
Snapper Creek Energy (Snapper Creek), a data-driven commodity brokerage specialising in traditional, renewable and transitional energy…
Citadel adds Traders in Paris, London and New York
Ken Griffin's multi-strategy hedge fund firm Citadel has boosted its trading teams in its London, Paris and New York offices with the…
Anthony Scaramucci to headline Hedgeweek US Digital Assets Summit
Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street legend and former White House Communications Director, is to headline the highly anticipated Hedgeweek…
Court orders Argentina to pay €310m deposit in hedge fund court case
London's Court of Appeal has ruled that Argentina must pay a deposit of €310m ($337m) before a full appeal can be heard in a court case…
Jain hits $3bn mark in fundraising for July hedge fund launch
Fundraising for Bobby Jain's much anticipated hedge fund launch later this year has reached $3bn, roughly half of the revised target for…
22 Feb 2024
Activist Starboard pushes for change at benefits services provider Alight
Starboard Value, the US activist hedge fund firm founded in 2002 by Jeffrey Smith and Mark Mitchell, has nominated four people to the board…
Rokos makes $1bn from US bond bet
Rokos Capital Management, the macro hedge fund major founded by Chris Rokos, stands to make a profit of more than $1bn after a bet on US…
Hedge funds short German lender with US real estate exposure
Multi-strat major Millennium Management, and Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s biggest computer-driven hedge fund firms,…
