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Goldman Sachs has pitched hedge funds on strategies to short corporate loans as investors look for new tools to bet against ...

Multi-strategy hedge funds have become increasingly important to institutional alternative allocations. In 2025, almost half of new hedge fund flows on my firm’s platform were allocated to ...

Hedge funds are more in demand than ever. For the second year in a row, hedge funds — the group of firms including Citadel, Millennium, D.E. Shaw, and Bridgewater — are the most sought-after asset ...

The global hedge fund industry has reported a 12.6% annual return in 2025, marking the highest since the global financial crisis. Stock-picking strategies that bet both long and short on equity ...

A hedge fund is a private investment vehicle that pools capital and applies broad investment strategies for returns in different markets. Unlike traditional investment products, hedge funds are ...

The South African hedge fund industry experienced a remarkable 17% growth in assets under management in 2025, driven by retail investor inflows and shifting preferences towards multi-strategy ...

Hedge fund firm Walleye Capital has hired two portfolio managers to trade financial sector stocks, with a goal of potentially spinning out their strategy at a later stage. The New York-based hedge ...

Hedge funds aren’t magical black boxes; they’re collections of disciplined processes. The good news? You can reverse-engineer those processes and adapt them to a home office or a small prop account.

D.E. Shaw & Co.’s two main hedge funds made money last week when most of their larger multistrategy peers were bruised by the ...

For many advisors, the question is not whether to use hedge funds, but which of the largest hedge funds belong in client portfolios. The biggest firms now manage roughly $5 trillion in assets, giving ...

Hedge funds are the most sought-after asset class heading into 2026, according to Goldman Sachs. Quantitative and discretionary macro strategies are particularly hot among allocators. Systematic macro ...