P&I: AQR assets affected as 10 pensions have terminated or reduced mandate size over past 18 months

Posted: June 29, 2020

AQR’s assets dropped 23.1% to $143 billion at the end of Q1 2020 from $186 billion at year-end 2019. From [Read More]
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Sightings…

Posted: June 26, 2020

Andrew Junkin, who has been with Wilshire Associates’ consulting practice for the past 15 years, has been appointed the chief [Read More]
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Assets Raised/Funds Launched: Lee Fixel raises $1.3B for Addition, Natixis launches ESG fund of funds

Posted: June 26, 2020

Lee Fixel, who had been at Tiger Global for 13 years overseeing its $16.4 billion in private investments, is planning [Read More]
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TCI, Slate Path, Marshall Wace, Coatue are big winners in Wirecard collapse

Posted: June 26, 2020

Hedge funds have profited $1.68 billion by shorting Wirecard, the German fintech firm. The firm disclosed its accounting irregularities on [Read More]
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Busson to delist LumX but firm will continue as a private company

Posted: June 25, 2020

Arpad “Arki” Busson will be delisting LumX from the Swiss stock market next Tuesday. LumX will continue as a private [Read More]
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