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Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds post net outflows of $37.1bn in 2024: hedge fund news

Saturday, March 01, 2025

In the week ending February 28th 2024, a report by AlternativeSoft said that the hedge fund industry experienced a total net outflow of $37.1 billion in 2024, adjusted for the positive 2024 returns, but a deeper analysis reveals an unexpected pattern in capital movements that challenges conventional wisdom about investor preferences. The industry's largest twenty hedge funds, traditionally viewed as safe harbors during uncertain times, experienced substantial outflows totalling $56.7 billion in 2024.

World's largest publicly traded hedge fund Man Group has seen its core profit before tax (PBT) surge by 39.1% year-on-year to $473m in 2024. The British hedge fund manager reported that its assets under management grew by around 1% to $168.6 billion in 2024

In new launches, Reckoner Capital Management has launched as a new global credit asset manager - the firm is led by John Kim, Ricky Li, Timothy Wickstrom, and Jamie Kim, who previously worked together at Panagram Structured Asset Management; International Asset Management and Catalio Capital Management announced the launch of the Catalio Global Innovative Healthcare Long/Short UCITS Fund on the IAM Investments UCITS Platform, and Kepler Partners has launched a new vehicle on its funds platform with Talomon Capital, a London-headquartered investment firm specialising in private equity-linked investments - the KLS Talomon PE Alpha Fund, a long-only equity fund, has launched on Kepler's KLS Funds platform.

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