24 Jan 2023
Diligend rebrands as Dasseti
Diligend, a cloud-based, digital due diligence software platform for the investment management industry, has rebranded as Dasseti. The…
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23 Jan 2023
Managing data challenges through software solutions
The boom in sustainable investing has brought challenges to the process of fundamental research. One of these key pressures is…
Citadel makes record $16bn profit
Ken Griffin's Citadel is now the best ever performing hedge fund in terms of annual returns having chalked up a $16 billion profit for…
TCI snaps 13-year winning streak with 18% loss in 2022
Activist investor Chris Hohn's TCI Fund made its first loss in 13 years in 2022 with the fund ending the year 18% down as Stockmarket…
Activist Elliott takes big Salesforce stake
Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has acquired a multi-billion dollar holding in cloud-based software firm Salesforce Inc, but has…
Point72 granted UK regulatory approval at third time of asking
Steve Cohen's Point72 has been granted regulatory approval in the UK, a decade after his previous firm paid a record $1.8 billion in fines…
Activist Caius Capital ups Metro Bank stake
Activist investor Caius Capital has made an additional $11 million investment in Metro Bank taking its stake to 5% in total and making it…
Asset managers and hedge funds split over bond market outlook
Hedge fund managers and asset managers are more divided on their outlook for benchmark Treasuries than they have been since late 2018, when…
20 Jan 2023
Elevating investment research techniques
Technology is elevating the quality and scale of primary research - allowing managers to undertake in-depth, high quality research at a…
Tumult highlights need for contrarian views
Contrarian investment managers are in the frame given the current macro-economic environment. In times of turmoil, such investors benefit…
Hedge funds race to cover Treasury shorts
Hedge funds raced to cover their Treasury short positions ahead of the release of inflation data for December as speculation mounted about…
China's Covid U-turn saves Asia hedge funds from double-digit losses
China's sudden easing of its strict Zero Covid restrictions and the stock market rally that followed, helped prevent Asia hedge funds from…
Big hedge funds better smaller peers for a change
Larger hedge funds outperformed their smaller peers last year for the first time since 2018, according to a report by the Wall Street…
Crypto hedge funds down by almost half in 2022
Crypto currency trading hedge funds tracked by index provider BarclayHedge ended 2022 down almost 50%, according to a report by Reuters,…
Talos partners with fund administrator Formidium
Talos, a provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, has partnered with digital assets fund administrator Formidium,…