RenTech emerges as rare hedge fund winner with 6% October gain... [more]Renaissance Technologies gained 6% in October, one of the few large hedge funds to sidestep the market carnage, lifting its Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund to a 12.3% return for the year. The firm's Institutional Diversified Alpha fund rose 4.6% in October, taking its 2026 gain to 22.4%.
Rokos joins biggest hedge funds losing money in October turmoil... [more]Chris Rokos' macro hedge fund lost 4.9% in October, trimming its year-to-date gain to about 8%, according to people familiar with the matter. The London-based firm, which manages around $22bn, was caught as a sharp technology selloff coincided with political upheaval in Brazil and violent protests i
Goldman, Capital Group alumni debut AI-run stock-picking fund... [more]Alex Popa, a former Capital Group portfolio manager on the Growth Fund of America, and Charles Elkan, who previously headed machine learning at Goldman Sachs, are raising money for AI Clarity, the first strategy of their firm Poesis, which opens to external clients early next year. The fund holds 80
Hedge fund risk retreat largest in a decade, Morgan Stanley says... [more]Global equity hedge funds cut risk at the steepest rate in more than a decade through the first week of November as a widespread unwind gathered steam, according to Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage. The gross market value of long-short stock funds has fallen 10.7% since late June, as managers were h
Equity dispersion trade risks a blowup, hedge fund CEO warns... [more]Investors enjoying a golden era for the equity dispersion trade should brace for pain if the market shifts suddenly, according to Will Bartlett, CEO of Parallax Volatility Advisers. Speaking on a panel at the Bloomberg Volatility Forum in New York, Bartlett called the trade "a ticking time bomb" and
Hedge funds ask SEC, CFTC to go slow in push to 24/7 trading... [more]The Managed Funds Association, which represents hedge funds and private credit firms, sent a letter to US regulators on Tuesday urging the Trump administration to move slowly toward round-the-clock trading. The group asked the SEC and the CFTC to first let some exchanges complete their planned move
CICC team seeks investors for $500 million fund of hedge funds on China revival... [more]The capital advisory solutions group at China International Capital Corp. plans to launch its first hedge fund-of-funds for external clients as soon as this month, testing appetite of around $500m. The core will be Greater China and Asia-Pacific equity strategies, with the rest going to multistrateg
Point72 unit sues ex-analyst over alleged source code theft using AI tools... [more]Cubist Systematic Strategies, the quantitative trading unit of Point72 Asset Management, has sued former research analyst Xin Jin in state court in Stamford, Connecticut, alleging he used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to steal proprietary source code. Cubist fired Jin in September after an i
Jefferies accused of betrayal by client of its Leucadia fund... [more]The Indiana Public Retirement System, which manages about $55bn for public employees, accuses Jefferies Financial Group of betrayal over its investment in 352 Capital, a hedge fund run by Jefferies' Leucadia Asset Management arm. Jefferies courted the pension intensively, hosting senior staff at its
CPP Investments merges underperforming active equities team into hedge fund, systematic strategy group... [more]Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is creating a new department called active public markets by combining its active equities team with its capital markets and factor investing group, led by Heather Tobin. The active equities unit lost CAD3.5bn in fiscal 2026 and CAD6bn over five years, and dozens
Christina Qi's Databento inundated with job applications... [more]Christina Qi, founder and CEO of market data platform Databento, broadcast on social media that she had 20 jobs to fill. Qi said she would like to fill them with people coming out of "pod shops."
"Our team includes alumni from Citadel, Two Sigma, Tower Research, Flow Traders, SIG, and other leadi
Neoclouds going to zero: eight wild markets bets from UBS conference... [more]At the annual UBS Australasia conference in Sydney, a "high-conviction hour" panel of Michael Hintze, John Pinkel, Larry Jeddeloh and James Aitken shared their big ideas for markets. Their most striking calls included the possible demise of neoclouds, oil surging to $200 a barrel, gold outperforming
Australia's Future Fund names CIO as new CEO... [more]Australia's Future Fund has appointed its CIO, Richard Brandweiner, as CEO from January 1, 2027. He succeeds Raphael Arndt, who announced in August that he would return to the private sector after almost 20 years with the fund. Brandweiner, a former Pendal Group CEO, only joined as CIO in July and w
And, finally: He's at it again... [more]From NJ.com: A Gloucester County man who has served two prison terms for financial mail crimes has been charged again with scamming companies and organizations into fraudulently sending him money, federal authorities and court documents allege.
Robert Armstrong, 56, of Turnersville, Washington To
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