Know What's Happening in Hedge Funds
Know What's Happening in Hedge Funds
Citadel Returns $5B to Investors in Unprecedented Profit Give‑Back
Citadel announced a $5 billion profit give‑back to investors in early 2026, emphasizing capital discipline and trimming excess assets to protect alpha. The distribution injects liquidity into the institutional ecosystem, allowing limited partners to redeploy capital into emerging themes.
Hedge funds Altimeter Capital and Chilton Investment have markedly increased their Microsoft holdings, with Altimeter expanding to over $601 million and Chilton boosting its stake by roughly 4%, making the stock its largest position at about 10% of assets under management. The moves are part of a broader institutional shift toward mega‑platform technology firms that dominate cloud, AI and enterprise software. Investors view Microsoft’s Azure cloud, OpenAI partnership and recurring‑revenue model as long‑duration growth engines. This consolidation signals a growing consensus that Microsoft is a core infrastructure provider for the emerging AI‑driven economy.
AllianceBernstein L.P. reduced its Visa Inc. holding by 5.5% in the third quarter, selling 1.15 million shares and bringing its position to 19.77 million shares worth roughly $6.75 billion, making Visa its eighth‑largest holding. The fund’s stake now represents 2.1% of its portfolio....
Bill Ackman filed to list Pershing Square Capital Management on the NYSE and raised its stake in Howard Hughes Holdings to about 47%, aiming to turn the REIT into a Berkshire‑style conglomerate. Piper Sandler says the venture’s success hinges on acquiring...
Bearish hedge fund positioning is extreme: Shorts in US-listed ETFs +10% Thursday—2nd-biggest daily jump since 2016 (only topped by +16% on April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day”). ETF shorts +12% this week (after +8% last), +23% in last month. US macro shorts (incl. index...
I’m genuinely interested in everyone’s thoughts. IMHO, what’s stoking fear @AcaciaCap isn’t our bid but the massive declines in everything from OTF, TCPC, FSK, OXLC, BPRE, the tripling of outflows for Cliffwater and Blue Owl, the frauds, the rise in...
FORA Capital LLC disclosed a new $2.78 million stake in Costco Wholesale, purchasing 3,004 shares in the third quarter. The filing shows a broader wave of institutional activity, with several hedge funds adding modest positions and overall institutional ownership at 68.5%....
He launched a macro hedge fund with $800K, fused thematic insight with disciplined risk control, and made a killing in 2007’s collapse.
Glenmede Investment Management trimmed its Arista Networks holding by 13.8% in the third quarter, selling 85,061 shares and leaving a stake of 532,557 shares valued at $77.6 million. The reduction occurs alongside modest stake increases by several smaller funds and significant...
While the headlines around Cliffwater have been apocalyptic, here's how fund flows are looking for Q1: - redemptions received: $4.5 billion - amount repurchased in tender: $2.3 billion - expected new commitments: $3.0 billion All of this drama for $0.7 billion of net...
QuantumStreet AI has introduced a 130/30 Long‑Short Global Equity strategy aimed at institutional investors seeking AI‑driven exposure to the MSCI World Index. The model combines structured macro, fundamental and technical data with unstructured sources like news and earnings calls, generating...
Tom Hayes hosted Episode 334 of Hedge Fund Tips VideoCast, focusing on the recent "Clean Bill of Health" market sentiment report. The discussion highlighted a swing to positive investor sentiment in early 2025, with equity valuations nearing pre‑pandemic norms. Hayes...
SS&C Technologies reported that its GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index posted a 0.59% gross return for February 2026. The accompanying Capital Movement Index rose 0.87% in March, marking a 12‑month high of 129.47 points. The index, which tracks assets administered...
Last week's pain: Citadel’s Global Fixed Income fund and Taula are among the hedge funds worst hit by last week’s market turmoil, while D.E. Shaw & Co.’s two main vehicles were a rare bright spot in the industry. Here's all the latest...
The AI trade that’s separating Wall Street’s winners and losers: semis > software It helped power $100mln+ in gains for a Point72 PM and helped convince the manager of a 23-year-old hedge fund to call it quits https://t.co/zUWC9pfB3X
South African hedge funds posted a strong performance in 2025, delivering double‑digit returns across most strategies. Assets under management rose by roughly 18%, driven largely by fresh capital from retail investors. The sector benefitted from a stable macro environment, lower...
Hedge funds managed by Ron Ozer, Doug King and Steve Barclay are the latest to have notched gains last week from the commodities volatility in the wake of the Iran war, even as many larger peers suffered losses https://t.co/i6JQcHoHZK
Another one. Cliffwater facing 7%+ redemptions on their $33B fund. Their response: “Sentiment is driving the selloff more than fundamentals.” That’s what they all say. Right before the gates go up.
Millennium expanded its equities team, hiring a veteran Citadel stockpicker and two additional equity traders, signaling aggressive talent acquisition amid market turbulence. Meanwhile, Linedata introduced Mosaic to streamline front‑office operations, and a HedgeWeek report highlighted stagnant female partner representation in...
DE Shaw’s hedge funds gain in a brutal week for multistrat peers. Flagship Composite fund gained 0.3% during the week to lift returns to 2.8% for the year through March 6. Macro-focused Oculus made 2.2% to boost gains for the...
Saba Capital’s @boazweinstein called the Cliffwater redemption rate in yesterday’s ’Inside Alts, where he said it would be between 10% and 20%. (Cliffwater’s Q1 redemption rate was 14%, according to a source familiar with the matter) https://t.co/hplp7WPkAp
Asian hedge funds Dymon Asia Capital, Modular Asset Management and Alpine Investment Management have preserved their 2026 gains despite market turbulence triggered by the Iran war. Dymon’s $6 billion multimanager fund slipped 1.5 % in early March, trimming its year‑to‑date return to...
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA is set to list on the NYSE with a $2.8 billion anchor book, marking a rare retail‑focused entry for an activist hedge fund. The vehicle is organized as a closed‑end fund that eliminates the traditional 2‑and‑20...
The FCA‑approved Apollo Long‑Term Asset Fund (LTAF) opens UK defined‑contribution pensions to private credit, infrastructure and venture capital. By imposing 90‑ to 180‑day redemption windows, the fund avoids the liquidity mismatches that plagued earlier products. Apollo will channel pension capital...
Greenlight Capital’s Solasglas fund posted a 7.9% fourth‑quarter gain and a 9.8% year‑to‑date return in 2026, outpacing the S&P 500’s modest rise. Despite solid performance, David Einhorn trimmed net equity exposure to about 29% in February, down from roughly 40%...
Crude oil’s rapid climb to near $120 per barrel has created a stark performance divide among hedge‑fund strategies. PivotalPath’s Regimes analysis shows managed futures delivering 9.1% and global macro‑commodities 8.8% when oil trades between $100‑$140, while the broader hedge‑fund index...
Edinburgh Worldwide (EWIT) has tabled a 100% tender offer that would let shareholders cash out at roughly 85% of net asset value, with the remaining 15% deferred until SpaceX’s anticipated IPO. The proposal does not require support from activist hedge...
Wall Street’s tail‑risk hedges have surged as the Iran‑Israel conflict wiped roughly $6 trillion from global equities and pushed oil above $100 per barrel. Leveraged VIX ETFs such as UVIX and UVXY jumped 30% and 20% respectively in March, while long‑expiry...
HEDGE FUNDS and other money managers had cut bullish positions in U.S. natural gas to the lowest for more than 18 months before the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Even after the attack and the closure of the Strait...
Some of the world’s biggest hedge funds known for their steady returns suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in losses last week: Millennium down 1.5b, Baly -3.5%, P72 -1.1 and MW Eureka -3.7%. initial estimates https://t.co/Vtq6iPL4ik
Gersemi Asset Management, originally founded to launch a shipping‑focused fund, is preparing to roll out a crypto‑focused strategy. The new approach relies on a proprietary algorithm that seeks returns in both rising and falling cryptocurrency markets. Back‑tested results indicate low...
Top institutional investors dramatically increased their stakes in ServiceNow (NOW) during the latest 13F filing period, adding roughly $2.5 billion in new equity. The purchases were led by Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management, which added over 6.6 million shares, followed by sizable...
Hedge funds realise some profits as oil prices climb Hedge funds and other money managers sold Brent futures and options last week to realise some of their profits on former bullish positions as prices surged after the United States and Israel...
Irenic Capital Management, a hedge fund known for activist campaigns, is expanding into private equity by hiring former Apollo Global Management principal E‑Fei Wang as managing director and head of private equity. Wang will lead efforts to execute buyouts and...
Macro and equity hedge funds delivered solid February returns as geopolitical tensions rose. The HFRI Composite Index rose 1.9%, driven by macro strategies that posted a 3% gain, the strongest monthly performance since 2003. Commodity‑focused macro managers led the charge...
‼️Hedge funds are EXTREMELY BEARISH on the US Dollar: Net dollar positioning of hedge funds and other asset managers is down to -$18.9 billion, near the most bearish level in at least 3 years. Hedge funds are getting caught off guard. 👇 https://globalmarketsinvestor.beehiiv.com/p/us-stocks-dropped-amid-rising-ai-and-geopolitical-uncertainty-weekly-market-recap-trading-week-09-20-a312
High‑conviction, concentrated portfolios are championed by UK fund legends like Nick Train and Terry Smith, and by hedge funds such as TCI and Pershing Square. While a few have delivered spectacular returns—Pershing Square’s 325% NAV gain—most concentrated funds exhibit volatile...
If you are a long-short equity fund thinking about ways to adopt an agentic approach, I encourage you to think about building a systematic short book. 1) Good shorts tend to rhyme more than good longs and and so are fertile...
Cedarwood Wealth LLC, a registered investment advisory firm based in Highlands Ranch, reported $133.8 million in discretionary assets under management for the period ending December 31, 2025, serving 91 clients. Its Q4 2025 13F filing disclosed $89.7 million in managed securities, with the top‑10 holdings...
This has to be one of the most bearish charts I’ve ever seen for CDX HY. One can argue that they won’t be as correlated as they’ve always been, but ‘this time is different’ may be wrong . I think...
My partner @kieranwgoodwin has been so right about this space for over a year which has really sharpened my vision. Outflows beget outflows. Gating begets outflows. Selling some of the underlying portfolio to meet minimum redemptions creates losses and begets...
The latest Finviz heat‑map shows money gravitating toward energy and dividend‑heavy defensive sectors, while technology and consumer discretionary stocks lag. Energy stocks posted double‑digit gains, pulling the broader market higher. Financials have steadied after recent turbulence, and overall market breadth...
Millennium Management hired four stock pickers from rival Citadel as the multistrategy hedge fund giants battle over talent to help manage their soaring assets https://t.co/4zMddskNrm
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤: Fresh launches, team moves are keeping hedge funds in growth mode, while Middle East tensions prompt firms in the Gulf to review near-term plans and continuity playbooks. Meanwhile, AI agent workflows are moving from buzzword to toolkit https://t.co/jiiupziBYa
A Hedgeweek survey shows 41% of hedge funds now rank AI integration ahead of talent and cost optimisation, making it the sector’s top priority for 2026. Roughly one‑third have already embedded AI into research and trading, while another quarter are...
Former Citadel money manager, Nico Dil, has started trading for his own hedge fund with backing from investors including Squarepoint Capital and Lighthouse Investment Partners. https://t.co/fp0XOxOsom
Blue Owl Capital has imposed an indefinite gate on its flagship retail‑focused alternative investment vehicle, halting all investor withdrawals. The move, driven by a wave of redemption requests that threatened a liquidity mismatch, mirrors concerns from the 2008 Bear Stearns...
The HFT algos/CTA trend followers don't discount geopolitics very well. If @hkuppy is right, he makes a real case why active management is of ultimate importance when there is a real global change. The VIX is not mean reverting this time,...
Rehmann Capital Advisory Group, based in Lansing, manages $3.18 billion in discretionary assets for 2,803 clients, bringing total regulatory assets to $4.27 billion as of January 1 2025. Its Q4 2025 13F filing disclosed $1.92 billion in managed securities, with a top‑ten holdings concentration of 35.82 %....
Colosseum Global Alpha, a long/short equity fund launched last summer, posted a volatile start to 2026, losing 14% in January. The fund rebounded sharply, gaining 13.3% in February and adding another 4.5% through early March, returning to positive YTD performance....
February was a strong month for Nordic CTA managers, making CTAs the top‑performing sub‑strategy in the Nordic Hedge Index. Gains were anchored by fixed‑income and soft‑commodity profits, with all trend‑following managers posting positive returns. Several non‑trend managers also delivered gains,...
