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Jamie Dimon and Boaz Weinstein’s $40 Trillion Private Credit Warning:
Rising Concerns Over Leverage, “Garbage Lending,” and the Next Potential Credit Crisis: (HedgeCo.Net) The global financial system is once again confronting a familiar question: Where is the next credit crisis hiding? In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis, regulators […]
AI Shock Hits Alts: Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Ares and Blue Owl Defend Private Credit:
(HedgeCo.Net) The most important “today” story across the largest alternative investment firms isn’t a single mega-deal—it’s a market narrative shift that’s forcing the entire private-capital complex to explain itself in real time. Over the last week, a broad sell-off in […]
Software Short Seller Nets $24 Billion:
(HedgeCo.Net) In a financial era defined by algorithmic trading and passive index fund dominance, the recent headline—“Software Short Seller Nets $24 Billion”—has sent a seismic shock through Wall Street. It is a staggering figure, one that rivals the GDP of […]
One Man Hedge Fund has caught the attention of Industry Giants:
(HedgeCo.Net) In an industry that often equates scale with edge—more analysts, more data, more technology, more leverage—Lucida Capital is an uncomfortable counterexample. The Canada-based hedge fund is operated solely by Francis Lau, and yet it posted a 65% gain from April […]
Hedge Funds Pivot and Wall Street Is Watching:
(HedgeCo.Net) The biggest story in hedge funds today isn’t a single trade or a single firm’s quarterly number—it’s a capital shift that is rapidly becoming structural: allocators are consolidating into fewer, larger multi-strategy hedge funds, fighting for capacity, and effectively […]
Hedge Funds at a Turning Point:
(HedgeCo.Net) In what many industry insiders are calling the most significant development shaping hedge fund strategy and market positioning in 2026, the United States’ largest hedge funds are benefiting from a remarkably strong performance backdrop in 2025, driving major revenue gains […]
Private Credit’s 2026 Opening Bell: Bigger Funds, Insurer Partnerships, and a New Scrutiny Cycle
(HedgeCo.Net) Private credit is starting 2026 the way it ended 2025: with scale—and with a growing spotlight on what that scale means for returns, liquidity, and risk. Over the past 48 hours, two developments have crystallized the story investors are watching […]
Sovereign funds join forces for strategic investment
Reuters – An increasing number of sovereign wealth funds are working in concert to make joint strategic investments in order to reduce risks and maximize returns, which could provide a stabilizing force in financial markets. State-owned funds from China, Singapore, […]
KBC says stops BlueCrest fund leverage facility
Reuters – Belgian bank KBC said it had terminated a $219 million leverage facility it provided to BlueCrest Specialty Asset Finance, a fund run by UK hedge funds manager BlueCrest Capital Management. It was not immediately clear how much of […]
KBC says stops BlueCrest fund leverage facility
Reuters – Belgian bank KBC said it had terminated a $219 million leverage facility it provided to BlueCrest Specialty Asset Finance, a fund run by UK hedge funds manager BlueCrest Capital Management. It was not immediately clear how much of […]
SEB fund arm plans credit hedge fund
Reuters – The fund management arm of Swedish banking group SEB is planning to launch a global credit hedge fund in the autumn to take advantage of mis-pricing opportunities in the credit markets. Peter Branner, global head of investment management […]