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Opalesque Roundup: Macro hedge funds withstand tariff turmoil, market volatility: hedge fund news

Monday, April 14, 2025

In the week ending April 11th, 2025, HFR revealed that hedge funds posted mixed performance in March as the trade tariff debacle caused financial market volatility to surge, with equity market declines again led by steep losses in the growth and technology categories. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) declined by -1.1 percent for the month, as gains in Macro strategies were offset by declines across Equity Hedge, Event Driven, and Relative Value Arbitrage strategies. In the first quarter, the HFRI FWC Index posted an estimated narrow decline of -0.38 percent.

In new launches, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is seeking to raise about $20 billion in what will be the largest fund in its history, to capitalize on global investors' interest in backing U.S. artificial intelligence companies, sources told Reuters; Pantheon Ventures, a global private markets firm, has raised $5.2 billion in committed capital for secondary investments of private credit assets, one of the largest fundraising hauls for the strategy, and global credit investment major Crescent Capital Group has raised €3bn ($3.4 billion) at the final close of its third ......................

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