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Hedge Fund Industry Trends In Q3 & The Evolving Fee Landscape
PivotalPath’s quarterly webinars bring together the best in hedge fund data, with the most influential industry voices.
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Multimanager hedge funds are stepping up external allocations to other hedge funds amid talent war
According to PivotalPath data, 147 hedge funds have launched (or will launch) from the start of this year through the second quarter of 2025 – whose founders hail from hedge funds with more than $1 billion in AUM – 53 of them from multi-strategy funds. Check out the full story below
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Jon Caplis featured on Bloomberg Radio
On Fed Decision Day, PivotalPath CEO Jon Caplis joined Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg radio to share his perspective on the hedge fund environment in 2024 and more specifically how the Fed’s interest rate cut will affect the industry going forward. Below is a clip of the conversation around interest rates.
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Pivotal Point of View – September 2024
Every month, on behalf of over $340B in client hedge fund capital, PivotalPath tracks over 2,800 institutionally-relevant hedge funds, spanning >$3T of industry assets. Our monthly report contextualizes these data points and identifies trends to help gain unique insight into the hedge fund industry. 2024 Hedge Fund Performance Strategy Highlights: Equity indices continues to make […]
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Traders Pile Into Real Estate Names on Easing Bets: Taking Stock
By Natalia Kniazhevich and Norah Mulinda(Bloomberg) — As Wall Street gears up for Federal Reserveinterest-rate cuts as early as September, some traders arealready piling into beaten-down real estate companies — drivingone stock’s returns above technology giant Nvidia Corp. so farin August.After lagging the broader market for months, the S&P 500Real Estate Sector is finally turning […]
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How hedge funds profited from July’s market maelstrom
A ramp-up in short positions against AI-exposed chipmakers helped stock-picking hedge funds ride July’s market maelstrom and deliver positive returns for investors, new industry data show. Equity hedge funds posted a 2.6% monthly return in July, and have now advanced into double-digit territory on a year-to-date basis, surging 10.3% since the start of January, according to […]
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How Investor Behaviors Are Changing The Way Ricky Sandler Invests
The Active to Passive investing shift continues. However, that gives way to opportunity in Fundamental investing. PivotalPath noted a drop in total AUM managed by quant funds, although the firm has also found that allocator interest in this strategy has jumped significantly. “The PivotalPath Equity Quant Index remains far below its AUM levels before performance […]
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Citadel’s Ken Griffin Has Remade the Hedge-Fund Industry, With Himself on Top
Ken Griffin wants visitors to the offices of his $63 billion hedge-fund firm, Citadel, to have no doubt about its standing atop Wall Street. “#1 Most Profitable Hedge Fund Manager of All Time” reads the message emblazoned on elevator doors at its Miami headquarters. It refers to an unofficial industry ranking Citadel scaled following a one-year record […]
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Pivotal Point of View – August 2024
Every month, on behalf of over $300B in client hedge fund capital, PivotalPath tracks over 2,800 institutionally-relevant hedge funds, spanning >$3T of industry assets. Our monthly report contextualizes these data points and identifies trends to help gain unique insight into the hedge fund industry. 2024 Hedge Fund Performance Strategy Highlights: Equity Indices continue to make […]
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Hedge funds retrench on risk, fearful of increased volatility
With the market volatility last week, many allocators are wondering which hedge fund sectors were most affected. As we shared with Reuters, our risk exposure model indicated losses between 1.5% and 2.5% between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5 for global macro quantitative funds, while hedge funds focused on the technology sector were down between 2.5% […]