Performance Round-Up: Large managers, in various strategies, gained in April while stocks dropped

Despite falling equity markets, early indications are that several large hedge fund managers performed well in April. Strategies doing well [Read More]
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Segantii Capital, Sadler and LaRocca being investigated for insider trading by Hong Kong regulator

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has started a criminal investigation into Segantii Capital Management, its founder and chief [Read More]
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Man, BlackRock, Citadel, Blackstone Alternative Asset Mgt, Schonfeld. Ionic have largest hedge fund allocations from Australian sovereign wealth fund

Australia’s $A223.4 billion ($US146 billion) Future Fund has a 14.7% allocation to alternatives (hedge funds) through the end of March, [Read More]
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Sightings….

Brevan Howard has hired Robert Alpen, the gas specialist, as it expands back into the commodities markets. Alpen had been [Read More]
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Merced County Employees halves hedge fund allocation, boosts fixed income

At its April 25 retirement board meeting, Merced County Employees’ Retirement Association halved its 10% hedge fund allocation target to [Read More]
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