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In the week ending February 14th 2025, HFR reported that hedge funds saw gains to start year, up 1.4% for January, navigating a volatile month highlighted the inauguration of Donald Trump as the US President, confirmation procedures of key appointed Cabinet positions, and a wide range of executive orders implementing policy changes across a number of areas including immigration, trade/tariffs, energy policy and spending reductions. The directional HFRI Equity Hedge Index advanced +2.1%.

Meanwhile, hedge funds and other investment managers plan to further increase their use of alternative data for research and insights with geolocation and consumer spending data expected to see the biggest growth in demand, new research from leading alternative data platform Exabel and BattleFin shows. The global study with investment managers and analysts working for fund management firms with total assets under management of $820 billion, found 86% expect to increase their use of alternative datasets over the next two years.

In new launches, crypto investor Dan Tapiero's 1RoundTable Partners is raising $500 million for "abundant yet underfunded" growth equity opportunities, according to marketing materials for the new fund obtained by PitchBook; Oaktree raised $16bn for a long-running opportunistic strategy, the largest fund in its history and the largest distressed-debt fund ever raised, giving the firm a sizable new pool of money to back cash-constrained companies in a range of industries, and Invesco Private Credit, the $48 billion private credit arm of global investment ma......................

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