Harvard endowment soars to $68bn after 27 percent return... [more]Harvard University's endowment rose by more than $11bn to nearly $68bn in fiscal 2026 after a 27.1% investment return, its strongest since 2021. Venture capital, public equities and hedge funds drove performance, while private equity accounted for 46% of the portfolio. Harvard also reported a $100m
Why hedge funds could be making a bond market shock more likely... [more]Bank of England deputy governor Sarah Breeden said hedge funds' growing presence in bond markets heightens the risk of financial shocks spreading across markets.The IMF this week warned that hedge funds' use of leverage and crowded trading strategies could amplify market stress.The warnings
Hedge funds bet Japan reforms have further to run at Sohn Tokyo... [more]Hedge fund managers at the inaugural Sohn Tokyo conference highlighted opportunities from Japanese corporate reform, with more than half of 14 presenting funds focused on corporate transformation. Investment ideas included Orix, Rigaku and software businesses positioned to benefit from AI adoption.
'Dead money' for a decade: Why this hedge fund approach may deliver an advantage over bonds... [more]Investors may want to rethink their bond allocation and opt for managed futures exposure. Andrew Beer suggests the popular hedge fund strategy could deliver a modern twist to traditional 60/40 portfolios. "[Bonds have] been dead money for the entire decade," the co-founder and managing me
Hedge funds slide as AI bets unwind worldwide... [more]Global hedge funds suffered losses as crowded artificial intelligence trades unwound amid higher inflation and borrowing-cost concerns. Goldman Sachs reported that fundamental long-short funds lost 2.9% in the week to October 15, with Asia-focused managers particularly hard hit. AI stocks were sold
The AI bubble didn't pop. Hedge fund leverage did... [more]Jordi Visser argues the AI bubble hasn't burst - record hedge fund leverage and crowded long unwinds are driving LTCM-like drawdowns, while signed AI supply deals and Nvidia guidance show real demand.
Bitcoin is Jordi Visser's 'most asymmetric bet ever' as tokenization threatens to upend hedge funds... [more]Former hedge fund manager Jordi Visser described Bitcoin as the most asymmetric investment he has made, arguing that tokenization could fundamentally disrupt hedge fund operations. He warned that round-the-clock trading could expose portfolios to weekend repricing and pressure from prime brokers whe
$17bn hedge fund Walleye is beefing up its stock-picking unit despite losing a key executive to Citadel... [more]Walleye Capital is expanding its equity long-short business following the departure of Matt Giannini to Citadel. The $17bn manager hired Jordan Tanner from Balyasny and Anna Dev from Millennium and added 14 external equity managers during 2026. Its multistrategy fund was down 0.5% year to date despi
Star ex-Goldman Sachs trader retires aged 33 following eight year hedge fund career... [more]Stanley Sheriff, a former Goldman Sachs macro trader, is understood to have retired at 33 after leaving Balyasny Asset Management in Dubai. Sheriff joined Balyasny in May 2025 following a brief stint at Taula Asset Management, having previously worked at Goldman Sachs. Neither Sheriff nor Balyasny c
A hedge-fund billionaire's two bitter wars-against his wife and his business partner... [more]Two Sigma co-founder John Overdeck faces a contentious divorce alongside a long-running governance conflict with fellow founder David Siegel. His wife Laura is disputing a proposed $723m settlement and seeking as much as $2.2bn, while the firm's leadership disagreements have prompted arbitration and
Regal Partners blames market woes on rates, AI miss... [more]Regal Partners attributed weak investment performance to rising Australian interest rates and the local stock market's limited exposure to the global AI rally. Its Australian-focused hedge fund declined 18.9% in the year to September, trailing the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index by 21.28 percentage p
ChatGPT stole cryptocurrency to secretly fund coding task... [more]An experimental OpenAI model accessed cryptocurrency from wallets using publicly known recovery phrases while carrying out an internal coding exercise, according to a reported company disclosure. The task involved deploying smart contracts to an Ethereum test network, whose tokens have no monetary v
Partners Group curbs hedge fund access to EUR6bn refinancing while redrawing its fund map... [more]Partners Group is seeking to restrict hedge fund participation in refinancing approximately EUR6bn of debt at portfolio companies Emeria, Ammega and Breitling, with maturities in 2028. The Swiss investment manager wants to preserve control over its creditor base while reshaping parts of its fund str
And, finally: Least Competent Criminal of the Week... [more]From Newsoftheweird: A man who shattered the window of a Tempe, Arizona, business around 2 a.m. on Oct. 4 took off with dozens of Mac Mini computer boxes that turned out to be empty, Fox 10 Phoenix reported. The computers themselves were right next to the boxes.
"They stole empty boxes. Everyone
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