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Hedge funds entered the third week of May riding a powerful wave: industry returns for April marked one of the strongest single months of the decade, allocators are accelerating private-credit buildouts, activist campaigns are reopening on multiple continents, and the regulatory chessboard in Washington shifted in three meaningful ways in a single week. SpaceX's anticipated listing has emerged as a defining gain story across several books, while London-based quant powerhouses continue to extend into India. Below, this week's Opalesque Exclusives, followed by the thematic landscape.