09 Mar 2023
Activists target company chiefs amid M&A slowdown
A global slowdown in mergers and acquisitions has prompted activist hedge funds to adopt a new tactic as they look to profit from their…
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Trading Technologies acquires fixed income trading specialist
Trading Technologies International, a global capital markets technology platform provider, has acquired London-based AxeTrading, a global…
Quantile launches new LCH ForexClear backloading service
Quantile, a provider of portfolio optimisation services, has developed what it says is the market’s first optimised backloading service…
EEX European power spot market up 7% year-on-year in February
The European Power Spot Market, operated by EPEX SPOT, saw a 7% increase in trading volume year-on-year in February, reaching a total of…
OSTTRA and DMIST eye ETD post-trade data standard
OSTTRA, a global post-trade solutions company and a member of the FIA’s Derivatives Market Institute for Standards, confirmed it is working…
08 Mar 2023
Percentage of senior women at hedge funds declines around the world
A new report by data provider Preqin has revealed that the percentage of women holding senior positions at hedge funds has fallen around…
Millennium boosts Australia presence with PM hire
Millennium Management, the $57 billion hedge fund founded by Israel Englander, has taken the first significant step in boosting its…
Hedge funds down 0.5% in February
Global hedge funds saw a 0.5% decline in February according to the performance of the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, on the back of…
Light Sky founder Melkman joins Schoenfled
Ben Melkman, a former partner at Brevan Howard Asset Management and the founder of the now-shuttered Light Sky Macro fund, has become the…
Bainbridge acquires three GAM alts strategies
Bainbridge Partners is to acquire three alternatives strategies from GAM Investments – GAM Opportunistic Credit, GAM Diversity and GAM…
HFR launches new investable hedge fund indexes
HFR has launched the HFRI 400 (US) Indices, a family of investable indexes tracking private hedge funds and open to US taxable investors,…
07 Mar 2023
Rewards and risks
It’s been easy for digital asset hedge fund managers to look back of late. But what lies ahead? Consolidation, opportunity, and the looming…
Back on the sidelines
Institutional allocations to digital asset funds – a genuine prospect this time last year – have been delayed again after the events of…
Rewind, rebuild
It’s been a little over three months since the collapse of FTX Trading and its cryptocurrency exchange. For fund managers, that’s a…
Ex-Citadel exec eyes $1bn for new hedge fund
A new fund set to be launched by Todd Barker, the former head of the Surveyor Capital unit at Ken Griffin's Citadel, is expected to raise…
