(Reuters) Jonathon Jacobson picked stocks for three decades. He spent the 1990s at Harvard University’s endowment, making winning bets on and against companies. Then he built a hedge fund, Highfields Capital Management, which made a mint in 2001 betting against […]

(Reuters) – Man Global Private Markets, unit of British Hedge Fund Man Group, on Monday named Bernd Kerner as investment director within its European private debt team. Based in London, Kerner will focus on sourcing, executing and managing European real […]

(Reuters) – Hedge funds showed signs of trying to pick the bottom in the oil market last week, with small-scale purchases emerging after the wave of heavy selling at the end of September and early October. To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) GP Bullhound has invested USD10 million in RavenPack, a provider of alternative data and insights for financial institutions. To read this article:

(Opalesque) AECOM-Canyon Partners, a joint venture between the real estate investment arm of engineering firm AECOM and Century City-based hedge fund Canyon Partners LLC, announced the close of its $500 million AECOM-Canyon Partners Equity Fund, the first vehicle launched by […]

(Opalesque) RWC Partners has announced the launch of the RWC Diversified Return Fund after the hiring of the senior members of multi-strategy specialists Agilis Investment Management LLP. The Diversified Returns Team led by Clark Fenton, along with colleagues Charles Crowson […]

(Reuters) – Man Global Private Markets, unit of British Hedge Fund Man Group, on Monday named Bernd Kerner as investment director within its European private debt team. Based in London, Kerner will focus on sourcing, executing and managing European real […]

(Reuters) – Hedge funds showed signs of trying to pick the bottom in the oil market last week, with small-scale purchases emerging after the wave of heavy selling at the end of September and early October. Hedge funds and other […]

(Bloomberg) After MF Global Holdings Ltd. imploded and more than $1 billion of client money went missing in 2011, Washington ratcheted up restrictions on what futures brokers could do with customer funds. Now, regulators in the Trump era are examining […]

Don’t count on a comeback for equity hedge funds. (Bloomberg) Don’t count on a comeback for equity hedge funds. That appears to be the conclusion Jeffrey Vinik reached when he decided recently to close Vinik Asset Management. To read this […]

(Hedgeweek) Investors redeemed at estimated USD12.11 billion from the global hedge fund industry in September 2019, bringing year to date (YTD) flows to -USD76.86 billion, according to the September 2019 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. To read this article:

(Opalesque) In the week ending October 25th 2019, Jeffrey Vinik, the billionaire investor who relaunched his hedge fund earlier this year, said he is closing his stock-picking hedge fund less than eight months after he started it, the latest sign […]