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Digital asset hedge fund Nickel Digital reopens its flagship fund after 137% expansion in trading teams

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers:

London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management, Europe's leading regulated multi-manager digital assets hedge fund, is reopening its systematic Diversified Alpha Fund following a period of strong sustained performance. It will reopen to new and additional subscriptions from 31 December 2025.

The fund, which employs a non-directional, multi-manager approach integrating a portfolio of capacity-constrained digital asset strategies into a single, investable fund, was soft closed in February 2025 following a 150% surge in assets under management over the prior 12 months.

The decision to reopen follows Nickel's Investment Committee's latest review which concluded that additional capital can now be accepted without compromising the fund's ability to deliver its long-term target return.

Since the soft close, Nickel Digital's multi-manager platform which houses multiple independent trading teams running systematic crypto strategies and operating under Nickel's centralised risk management framework - has continued to strengthen, expanding from 35 pods on 1 Jan 2025 to 83 today, a 137% YTD growth. This enables the fund to further responsibly deploy incremental capital while maintaining tightly controlled and disciplined risk oversight.

That framework demonstrated its resilience during October's flash crash following Preside......................

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