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Citadel’s Ken Griffin Has Remade the Hedge-Fund Industry, With Himself on Top
Ken Griffin wants visitors to the offices of his $63 billion hedge-fund firm, Citadel, to have no doubt about its standing atop Wall Street. “#1 Most Profitable Hedge Fund Manager of All Time” reads the message emblazoned on elevator doors at its Miami headquarters. It refers to an unofficial industry ranking Citadel scaled following a one-year record […]
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Pivotal Point of View – August 2024
Every month, on behalf of over $300B in client hedge fund capital, PivotalPath tracks over 2,800 institutionally-relevant hedge funds, spanning >$3T of industry assets. Our monthly report contextualizes these data points and identifies trends to help gain unique insight into the hedge fund industry. 2024 Hedge Fund Performance Strategy Highlights: Equity Indices continue to make […]
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Hedge funds retrench on risk, fearful of increased volatility
With the market volatility last week, many allocators are wondering which hedge fund sectors were most affected. As we shared with Reuters, our risk exposure model indicated losses between 1.5% and 2.5% between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5 for global macro quantitative funds, while hedge funds focused on the technology sector were down between 2.5% […]
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Traders lose billions on big volatility short after stocks rout
A wager that stock markets would stay calm has cost retail traders, hedge funds and pension funds billions after a selloff in global stocks, highlighting the risks of piling into a popular bet. The CBOE VIX index, which tracks the stock market’s expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options, posted its largest-ever intraday jump and […]
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Hedge Funds Bought the Dip in US Stocks on Monday, Goldman Says
As volatility gripped global markets to start the week, hedge funds stepped in to buy the big dip in technology shares, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s prime brokerage data.
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Hedge Funds Were Hit by Tech-Stock Losses Before Latest Selloff
As a stock rout hit markets mid-July, some of the world’s biggest equity hedge funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars from piling into popular tech stocks that led the meltdown.
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Bridgewater says sell-off in Japan’s stocks is overdone
Bridgewater Associates said in a commentary sent to investors on Tuesday that it believes the sell-off in Japan’s equities the previous day was exaggerated and that the stocks remain somewhat attractive, according to two sources familiar with the letter. According to the sources, the $112.5 billion global macro hedge fund wrote that, in their opinion, […]
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Stock-Picking Hedge Funds Post July Losses Amid Tech Selloff
s a stock rout hit markets mid-July, some of the world’s biggest equity hedge funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars from piling into popular tech stocks that
led the meltdown.
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To woo investors, hedge funds are reviving a strategy left for dead post-crisis — supercharged index investing
History sometimes repeats itself. And in the case of “portable alpha”, a revival is underway in 2024. However, this time it is driven by hedge funds themselves.
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Hedge Funds Selling Industrials at a Record Pace, Goldman Says
Hedge Funds have been unwinding their bets on industrials – and the looming election uncertainty may be the reason.
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