Hedge funds dump positions and cut staff as selloff deepens... [more]A market rout in October walloped hedge funds, forcing them to unwind positions at the highest rate in years and cut staff. The pain left many nursing deep losses even before the stock selloff intensified Thursday. Funds trading everything from artificial intelligence and healthcare stocks to risky
Tech selloff wipes out hedge fund gains, prompting risk cuts and layoffs... [more]A global equity selloff led by technology stocks on Thursday erased year-to-date gains at many hedge funds, pushing managers to cut risk and shrink investment teams. Goldman Sachs estimated that tech-focused equity long-short funds fell more than 4% on the day. That leaves their 2026 returns roughly
Tiger Global, Whale Rock battered by AI fears in painful October... [more]Tiger Global's flagship hedge fund lost 8.5% in October, leaving it roughly flat for the year, as worries over AI spending hit stock-picking funds. Whale Rock's flagship fell about 8% but was still up about 34% for the year. Atreides Management lost 9.5% (still up about 43% year to date) and D1 Capi
Ex-Moore money manager to return cash from his hedge fund... [more]Paul Yablon, founder of digital-asset hedge fund Room40 Capital and a former Moore Capital portfolio manager, is returning all external investor capital. He will manage proprietary money alongside capital from a single institutional investor and expand beyond crypto into macro trading. In an investo
Hedge fund VARA plunges 33% in brutal October for AI stocks... [more]A fund advised by Value Aligned Research Advisors (VARA) lost 33% in October, about five times the Nasdaq 100's decline. It had already fallen 44% in July. Investors in the fund's Class C shares were told it was still up 13% for 2026 through October. In a letter sent to investors on Thursday, the fi
Icahn's private hedge fund down nearly 44 Percent... [more]Carl Icahn's private hedge fund suffered another huge quarterly loss. The octogenarian's Investment portfolio reported a 31.3 percent slide in the third quarter. This brings the total loss for the year to 43.8 percent, according to the third-quarter report filed by Icahn Enterprises.
Traders cite hedge-fund liquidations as a driver of U.S. stock selloff... [more]Traders and analysts said Thursday's steep drop in US stocks was driven mainly by hedge funds unwinding positions, not by weaker corporate fundamentals. Noel Smith, co-chief investment officer at Kai Asset Management, said a decline of that size without major news pointed to forced unwinds. The mark
Wall Street fear gauge jumps most since 'Liberation Day' as AI trade stumbles... [more]The Cboe Volatility Index jumped 11.5 points on Thursday to an eight-month high of 28.09, its biggest intraday rise in more than 18 months. It was also the largest one-day gain since the April 2025 "Liberation Day" tariff announcement. Steep losses in chip and data center stocks dragged the Nasdaq d
Hedge funds were 'massive' sellers of AI debt, RBC's Skiba says... [more]Hedge funds have sold heavily over the past few weeks in debt tied to the artificial intelligence buildout, according to Andrzej Skiba, head of BlueBay US fixed income at RBC Global Asset Management. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Skiba said "we have seen a massive hedge fund capitulation within
Asian hedge fund Aspex suffers 16% loss in October tech rout, source says... [more]Hong Kong-based Aspex Management, which manages about $14bn in pan-Asian equities, lost roughly 16% in October, one of its biggest monthly drawdowns, though it is still up about 9% for the year. The fund was founded by former Och-Ziff Asia equities head Hermes Li. It was hit as investors dumped AI-r
AI free-fall triggers another major hedge fund shakeout... [more]The AI selloff has set off another round of hedge fund restructuring. $17bn Walleye Capital is cutting its internal equity long-short unit and returning some capital, and Engineers Gate is parting ways with most of its "synthesis" stock team. According to Bloomberg figures, October losses also hit M
'They're shooting the generals': AI trade stocks drop as hedge funds rush to protect 2026 gains... [more]Leading AI-trade stocks have fallen sharply over the past month as hedge funds lock in profits ahead of year-end: Lam Research is down 36%, Applied Materials 30%, AMD 22% and Nvidia 15%. Nomura cross-asset strategist Charlie McElligott said the unwind of 2026's popular thematic stocks has been "wild
Engineers Gate parts ways with most of Synthesis stock team... [more]Systematic hedge fund Engineers Gate has cut most of its Synthesis equities team, including the team leader, after losing 5.5% in October, leaving five fundamental managers in place. In a letter to clients, the firm said the team's performance after the AI and tech stock downturn "was insufficient t
Five credit portfolio managers leave hedge fund Brevan Howard... [more]At least five credit portfolio managers have left $35bn Brevan Howard Asset Management: Simon Gee, Jenna Collins, Adam Steer, Chris Watson and David Heinau. Separately, credit trading head Andy Silver is moving to an advisory role, a change reported as unrelated to the departures. October performanc
I became hedge fund boss after leaving Tottenham, now I want to replace Gianni Infantino... [more]Ramon Vega made millions in finance after leaving football behind and is now planning a sensational bid to become FIFA's new president.The former Tottenham defender spent four years in north London, making 81 appearances and scoring eight goals. He also had stints at Celtic and Watford before retiri
EWJ holders trailed the currency-hedged Japan fund by $21,150 on $300,000 over 12 months... [more]In the 12 months to November 3, the unhedged iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) returned 15.5% including distributions. The iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF (HEWJ), which holds EWJ plus yen and dollar currency contracts, returned 22.55%. On a $300,000 investment, that means about $367,650 in the hed
And, finally: A very useful ten years... [more]From UPI: A Detroit man spent over 10 years assembling an 11,578-pound rubber band ball that has now been certified as the largest in the world.
Claude P. Moore said he started making rubber band balls during his frequent doctor appointments to check up on his blood disorder hemophilia, and in 20
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