Category Archives: Hedge Fund Performance
Amazon Becomes the Most-Owned Stock Among Hedge Funds:
“Why Hedge Funds Are Buying Amazon Hand Over Fist— and What That Says About the New Tech Trade.” (Hedge Co.Net) In early 2026 filings, one name appeared with remarkable consistency across hedge fund portfolios: Amazon. Once viewed as a perpetual […]
Citigroup Says Hedge Funds Sold Dollars After the Supreme Court Tariff Ruling:
(HedgeCo.Net) When Citigroup told clients that its hedge fund customers were net sellers of the U.S. dollar around the market’s reaction to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down President Donald Trump’s emergency-law tariffs, it sounded like a narrow flow note—interesting, but tactical. In reality, […]
Hedge Funds Accumulate Equity ETFs:
(HedgeCo.Net). For years, hedge funds defined themselves by what they weren’t: long-only, benchmark-hugging, or passive. Alpha was the religion. Beta was the enemy. In 2026, that distinction is quietly breaking down. Recent positioning data shows hedge funds significantly increasing exposure to broad […]
Inside the Age of Mega Hedge Fund: How Scale, Structure, and Capital Are Reshaping the Industry:
(HedgeCo.Net) For decades, hedge funds sold a simple promise: nimble capital, unconstrained strategies, and elite talent capable of generating alpha independent of market direction. That image—of small teams exploiting inefficiencies faster than the market—still exists. But it is no longer […]
Steve Cohen’s $3.4 Billion Year: Inside the Economics of Scale at America’s Most Powerful Hedge Fund:
(HedgeCo.Net) By any historical measure, Steve Cohen’s latest payday stands as one of the most consequential data points in modern hedge-fund history. Cohen, the founder and CEO of Point72 Asset Management, earned an estimated $3.4 billion last year—placing him at the very top of global […]
Hedge Funds Outperform Risk Assets in 2025: Why Active Risk Management Beat Passive Exposure:
(HedgeCo.Net) After more than a decade of skepticism, hedge funds delivered a result in 2025 that many allocators had quietly stopped expecting: clear, repeatable outperformance versus traditional risk assets. In a year marked by macro volatility, violent factor rotations, AI-driven dispersion, […]
Inside Mega Hedge Funds: Strategy Shifts, Rebalancing, and Adjustments in 2026:
(HedgeCo.Net) The biggest story inside the U.S. hedge fund industry today is not a single blockbuster trade or quarterly return number. It is a structural repositioning underway at the largest hedge funds—firms managing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that now dominate global […]
Citadel’s Focus: Funding, Compensation Gravity, and the Economics of Scale
(HedgeCo.Net) Citadel remains one of the defining institutions in the hedge-fund universe precisely because it’s not just an investment firm—it’s a capital ecosystem. This week’s “new and trending” Citadel story is the way scale creates both a moat and a […]
Hedge Fund Strategies Go Mainstream:
How ETFs Are Re-Engineering Alternative Investing for Scale, Liquidity, and a New Generation of Allocators (HedgeCo.Net) For decades, hedge funds occupied a rarefied corner of global finance. They promised diversification, downside protection, and uncorrelated returns—but at a cost. High minimums, […]
Quant Giants, Two Sigma’s Governance Stress Meets Millennium’s Buildout Moment:
(HedgeCo.Net) If multi-strategy hedge funds are the defining trading institutions of this era, then large quant-driven firms are the defining systems institutions—built on code, data, and organizational stability. That’s why a different kind of headline is resonating right now: not a trade, […]
Hedge Funds Hit by a Sharp Sell-Off — Inside the Worst Trading Day in Nearly a Year:
(HedgeCo.Net) Global hedge funds just experienced their most punishing single-day drawdown in almost a year, a sudden jolt that cut across strategies, geographies, and asset classes. According to research from Goldman Sachs, the losses were driven by a rapid sell-off in […]
Volatility Is Back — and the U.S. Multi-Strategy Giants Are Monetizing It:
(HedgeCo.Net) If January 2026 delivered one clear message about the U.S. hedge fund pecking order, it’s that the industry’s biggest platforms are built for exactly this market: higher volatility, faster rotations, more cross-asset shocks, and a constant stream of macro catalysts. […]