Opalesque Exclusive: Middle market private equity shows signs of recovery... [more]Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Middle market private equity is showing signs of recovery, but it may be a while before that equals cash in hand to investors. New data from Pitchbook shows that funds started getting deals done in the third quarter, exits remain weak.
Deal count jumped 24.1
How a $22 billion hedge fund empire ended up selling $800 million after its biggest bets went wrong... [more]Arini Capital Management, founded in 2021 by former Credit Suisse credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer and grown to $22bn in assets, sold about $800m of debt holdings over several weeks, partly to meet margin calls from banks. Its roughly $7bn distressed-debt flagship was down about 15.7% by September an
US hedge funds just sold every AI stock they bought since 2025... [more]Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data shows hedge funds sold AI stocks for five straight days in October, erasing every net AI purchase they had made since the start of 2025, while Morgan Stanley says funds have cut more than 8% of their total equity positions since June, the biggest pullback since at
Brazil hedge fund losses reach 24% from post-runoff rout as Lula upsets expectations... [more]Vista's Multiestrategia fund fell 24%, Mar Absoluto dropped 15%, Legacy Alpha lost 8% and an Ace strategy slid nearly 9% on the Monday after Lula's runoff win, the local macro sector's worst day in about nine years, while the Anbima hedge fund index posted its worst day since 2017. Encore Asset Mana
Tudor-backed hedge fund Xantium plans record $9B spinout: FT... [more]Xantium, a quantitative hedge fund founded inside Paul Tudor Jones' Tudor Investment in 2019 by former D.E. Shaw executives Oliver Watson and Sergey Levin, plans to spin out in the first half of 2027 with about $9bn in assets, according to the Financial Times. That would make it the largest hedge fu
Yen trading range shrinks to 4.5-year low as hedge funds slash short bets... [more]The dollar-yen rate's October trading range narrowed to about 2.87 yen, the tightest in roughly four and a half years, as hedge funds that drove yen weakness in the first half of 2026 pulled back. CFTC data show speculators' net short yen position shrank to about 14,000 contracts as of October 27, o
Many hedge funds were able to ride the market to big gains. Now they need to pick winners and losers.... [more]With broad exposure to AI winners no longer paying off, hedge funds are shifting back to fundamental stock selection on both the long and short side as rates rise and bond markets are rattled by heavy tech-company issuance and fiscal problems in countries such as France. Bayberry Capital's Angela Al
Abu Dhabi family office launches $1.2bn LNG investment fund... [more]An Abu Dhabi family office is launching a planned $1.2bn fund focused on liquefied natural gas investments. The vehicle stems from an agreement signed in July between the Private Department of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalid Al-Nahyan, US-based MidOcean Energy and its parent company EIG.
Hugh Hendry says Bitcoin should top $1m and urges US to move away from dollar standard... [more]Hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry stated that Bitcoin's value should exceed $1 million. He also called for the United States to move away from the dollar standard, highlighting that the Trump administration has fully endorsed stablecoins. Hendry emphasized that Bitcoin requires official US government a
Hedge funds boost natural gas short positions to most on record... [more]Money managers raised their short-only bets on US natural gas to a record 625,150 contracts across seven Henry Hub benchmark contracts, according to CFTC data going back to May 2013, while their net short rose to 223,591, the most bearish stance since February 2020. December futures have fallen 18%
Borsa Istanbul chief detained as Turkey widens investment fund probe... [more]Korkmaz Enes Ergun, general manager of Borsa Istanbul since 2021, was detained on October 31 as Istanbul prosecutors widened an investigation into capital market transactions, accused of bribery and membership in an organization formed to commit crimes. The probe, launched after complaints from the
And, finally: A real Batman lands in London... [more]From Newsoftheweird: A month ago, London's Batman took to the streets to clean up litter with a group of masked sidekicks, and since then, the caped crusader has paid parking fines for people visiting patients in hospitals, given out an estimated $46,000 in fuel and brought back inexpensive chicken
In an era of deepfakes, phantom fortunes, and narrative warfare, the challenge of distinguishing reality from illusion has never been more acute. For those stewarding generational wealth, the stakes are existential. This 11th edition of Horizons delves into the critical quest for clarity, offering a toolkit to navigate a world rife with deception and to build a foundation of verifiable trust.
Our journey begins with a chilling investigation into
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