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In the week ending April 25th 2025, International Monetary Fund has warned that hedge funds with large bets on the US bond market are at risk of their trades "backfiring", stoking financial stability risks across the world. In its first assessment of global markets after a sharp decline in US stocks, bonds and the dollar this month, the fund warned that financial stress among asset managers and hedge funds could spill over into the banking system if volatility persisted.

Meanwhile, hedge funds are fleeing the stocks of companies that provide discretionary items and services consumers want but do not need, in a sign they anticipate an economic downturn, a Goldman Sachs prime brokerage note showed.

In new launches, Cantor Fitzgerald is launching a crypto venture with Tether and Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group to buy bitcoin, wagering that interest in the digital currency will expand under U.S. President Donald Trump; Bob Elliott's Unlimited is eyeing a hedge fund ETF offering in Europe as investors increasingly turn towards diversifiers amid a sell-off across conventional asset classes, and Venture Guides, a venture capital firm focused on active guiding and team-based investing in early-stage, infrastructure software companies, announced the closing of its second fund, totaling $262.5 million.

Meanwhile, Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based music investment firm behind ABBA Voyage, has raised over €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) for its debut fund; Catalyst Opportunity Funds, a double-bottom-line real estate investment platform focused on impactful investments in historically underserved U.S. markets, announced the final close of Catalyst Opportunity Fund II with total capital commitments of $140 million, and Paris-based Atlantic Vantage Point (AVP), previously known as AXA Venture Partners, is launching......................

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