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In the week ending 17 April, 2015, hedge funds have enjoyed their best quarter since 2013 as their big investments on the rise in the U.S. dollar paid off; the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund is in the final stages of deciding how it will add to its mix of alternative investments; the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for March showed that investors have trimmed their hedge fund bets in April by 1.14%; fixed income hedge fund managers are trying to get their heads round how to trade with ECB’s massive bond-buying program; BlueMountain Capital has cut its stake in New York-listed DryShips to 5%; and Susquehanna International, Aristeia Capital, CQS, AQR Capital and Och-Ziff Management, as well as French banks BNP Paribas and Natixis, had "short" positions of between 0.5% and 1.96% of Alcatel's share capital.

Chalkstream Capital is betting that South Korea will be its next best source of alpha; Toscafund bought a 12.1% stake in Circle Holdings worth nearly £10m; Victory Park Capital expanded into real estate sector with $50m investment in Renovo Financial; Grantham Mayo van Otterloo takes strong exception to the conventional view that investors should hedge their foreign equity exposure; Joho Capital’s bet on tech paid off and has generated returns of around 20% a year since its inception.

John R. Taylor has reappeared on the Forex scene, launching a company named FX Concepts News.

The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.7% in ......................

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