Press & Media
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Two Brothers, a Big Biotech Bet and an $8 Billion Payout
In the last decade, hedge funds of funds have consolidated and evolved.
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Equity Hedge Funds Fail to Beat Benchmarks Despite Tech Boost
Additional context on hedge fund performance – which is sometimes more nuanced than it seems at first.
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Bridgewater CEO’s Turnaround Hinges on Wooing Restless Clients
The PivotalPath Global Macro Index climbed almost 24% over the past four years. While we do not discuss or comment on the performance of individual funds, having a meaningful benchmark that is rooted in accuracy and transparency is crucial for understanding performance.
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High-profile hedge fund managers line up launches for 2024
What’s sparking the surge of high-profile single strategy hedge fund launches in 2024?
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HEDGE FLOW Hedge funds ramp up leverage to near record highs to juice returns
Hedge Funds in general have recently been increasing leverage to boost their returns. But how does that compare to their historical use of leverage?
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Quant strategies powered hedge funds’ rise last month
Quant Funds were some of the strongest performers last month.
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Some Hedge Funds Keep Over Half of Their Profits Through Customer Fees
Gross returns generated by many multi-strat funds outperformed many of their peers in 2023 (and likely every year over the past decade). However, net of fees, performance was near the bottom of hedge fund strategy performance.
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Hedge-Fund Short Sellers Revel in Hidden Cash Perk Like 2007
For the first time since before the Great Financial Crisis, many hedge funds are benefiting from higher interest rates, especially long/short equity funds with meaningful short books, and Macro/CTA’s earning higher rates on collateral. With low interest rates, the returns were negligible; in today’s environment, they’re making a difference.
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Hedge Funds Lag Behind the S&P 500. Ken Griffin’s Citadel Is an Exception.
In 2023, some of these multistrategy funds continued to do well, but it was hard to beat the sizzling returns of benchmarks like the S&P 500
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Talent-Hungry Hedge Funds Seen Fueling Pod Shop M&A in 2024
Consolidation is among the top themes investors are watching for in 2024 as the industry’s biggest players look for fast ways to acquire talent, after adding tens of billions of dollars of assets in recent years.