Closing: Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers
Posted: March 4, 2024
Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers is closing its door after 46 years. George Weiss, known as a market neutral pioneer, founded the [Read More]
Sightings…
Posted: March 1, 2024
Jain Global has hired Nitin Dewan as head of equity capital markets. He will focus on a strategy involving trading [Read More]
Man Group performance fees plunge 77% on lackluster quant performance
Posted: February 29, 2024

Man Group’s quant strategies posted lackluster results in 2023 which led to performance fees plunging 77% to $180 million compared [Read More]
Consolidation trend underway – Kirkoswald’s Coffey in negotiations to buy EMSO
Posted: February 29, 2024
Greg Coffey’s Kirkoswald Asset Management, an $8 billion macro hedge fund, is in talks to acquire EMSO Asset Management, [Read More]
Launches: Ascendance Asset Management is targeting $300-500M, Kanou Capital is offering an energy transition fund while Almada Capital is launching a commodity-focused fund
Posted: February 28, 2024
Bob Kim is launching Ascendance Asset Management, a new multi-strategy firm, this summer with an asset-raising target of $300 million [Read More]