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There's a split internally at $65 billion Marshall Wace. The 27-year-old London-based hedge fund, founded by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace, has prided itself on its collaborative culture. Multi-strategy mightThe culture shift at Marshall Wace is just the latest ripple effect to come from the vast expansion of power, assets, and clout of the largest multi-strategy hedge funds. For Marshall Wace, that looks like a charge that can be up to 0.75% of the $22.4 billion Eureka fund's value — more than $150 million — on top of the set management fees and variable performance fees the firm already charges. A person close to the firm said that certain people still have access to aggregated positions, but the restriction helps Marshall Wace manage "complexity and confidentiality" as the manager continues to grow.
Persons: Marshall Wace, Paul Marshall, Ian Wace, Marshall, George Soros, It's, Marshall Wace's, You've, Dan Schatz, Ruchit, Jaime Brandwood, Derek Rosenthal, Marshall's Organizations: Business, BNP, Eureka, Citadel, Ruchit Puri Locations: London, Citadel, New York, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Eureka
Vista Equity Partners, the private equity giant that's known for its tech investing, doesn't want its analysts using generative AI for due diligence. "And we do want our humans to actually go and read the stuff that's important that's going to make billion-dollar decisions in the diligence side." Other private equity firms, like the Swedish giant EQT, have introduced generative AI to the due diligence process, BI previously reported. Vista Equity Partners, which is in the business of buying companies, improving them, and selling them for a profit, employs people whose sole job is to transform operations of portfolio companies and help them scale, Saroya said. He added that the firm created a reference guide for its portfolio companies, including the data, cloud, and other software providers needed to be successful, and partnered with those companies for the portfolio companies to use, where appropriate.
Persons: that's, Monti, Saroya, That's Organizations: Vista Equity Partners, doesn't, Milken Institute Global, Flagship Fund, PE, underwriters Locations: Asia
Eric To is leaving the $10 billion New York-based multi-manager, people close to the firm told Business Insider. He was the cohead of APAC and head of APAC fundamental equity. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. A person close to the firm told Business Insider that To's cohead, Chris Antonelli, will take over as the sole head of the Asia business going forward. In the five years To was there, this person noted, Schonfeld's Asia business expanded to Japan and Australia and nearly tripled its head count in the region.
Persons: , Eric, Sol Kumin's, Chris Antonelli, Ken Organizations: Service, Business, Schonfeld, SAC Capital, Schonfeld's, Citadel Locations: York, Hong Kong, Folger Hill, Asia, Balyasny, Schonfeld's Asia, Japan, Australia, APAC
Ken Griffin's $61 billion Citadel is leading multistrat funds in performance this year. The firm's flagship fund returned 2% in April, bringing 2024 gains to 7.8%. Firms such as Walleye, Millennium, and Schonfeld are also off to a strong start this year. Despite equity markets tumbling in April, Ken Griffin's teams of stockpickers helped lead his firm to a 2% return in its $61 billion flagship fund. A person close to Griffin's Citadel told Business Insider that Wellington's year-to-date returns rose to 7.8% following April's gains.
Persons: Ken Griffin's, stockpickers Organizations: Citadel, Walleye, Griffin's Citadel, Business Locations: Miami
And that's seen by the dot plot and their own inability to predict when interest rate cuts are going to happen." Related storiesWhen the yield curve is inverted, meaning short-term rates are above longer-term ones, a barbell strategy in bonds means betting on long- and short-duration bonds. And that barbell is kind of what investing in the yield curve looks like today", Huffman said. But if interest rates fall, you will be forced to reinvest in a lower interest rate environment. Avoid the 10-year or 30-year duration bonds because they will face a negative yield curve role, which could reduce their total return potential, she added.
Persons: Taylor Huffman, Huffman, it's Organizations: PT Asset Management, Business, Management's, Bond, Securities
Investors are ramping up outflows from Cathie Wood's ARK funds after a three-year decline. The suite of ARK ETFs has seen net outflows of $2.2 billion so far this year, triple the outflows in 2023. AdvertisementInvestors in Cathie Wood's ARK ETFs are starting to increase the pace of outflows after a string of bad bets and a painful three-year decline. The ARK ETFs' combined assets under management stand at $11.1 billion, down 81% from its peak AUM of $59 billion in 2021. This dynamic — the sharp decline in ARK funds while the broader stock market hits record highs — was highlighted by Morningstar earlier this year.
Persons: , Morningstar, Amy Arnott, Wood, Tesla Organizations: Service, Innovation, Morningstar, Nvidia, Unity Software
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The $10 billion manager returned 1.5% last month in its flagship fund, pushing its 2024 returns to 3.3% for the year, sources close to the firm told Business Insider. Since September, when Schonfeld was drumming up cash and cutting costs, the firm has returned 6.2% in its flagship fund and 7.4% in fundamental equity. Its 2023 performance to date has the New York-based manager leading its multi-strategy peers, including Millennium and Ken Griffin's Citadel. AdvertisementBalyasny, which trailed peers in 2023, was flat last month, while Michael Gelband's ExodusPoint was up 0.7%.
Persons: , Schonfeld, Griffin's, Steve Cohen's Point72, Michael Gelband's ExodusPoint Organizations: Service, Schonfeld Strategic, Millennium, Business, Investors, Griffin's Citadel, Citadel Wellington Locations: Asia, York, Wellington
Bitcoin prices have rebounded since 2023, recovering from steep declines in the couple of years before. On Tuesday, bitcoin prices reached a two-year high of over $56,000. Ark Invest's chief futurist, Brett Winton, believes that a "responsible allocation to innovation generally is really, really critical." On average, Ark Invest's research shows that the "optimal" allocation to maximize risk-adjusted returns — on a five-year time horizon — would be 4.8% on average since 2015. The breakdown of Ark Innovation ETF's tech investments is as follows: cryptocurrencies make up 6.9% of it, and digital wallets 8.8%, among other tech themes.
Persons: Ark, Brett Winton, CNBC's, Winton, , bitcoin's Organizations: Invest, Innovation, Ark Invest Locations: bitcoin, U.S, Europe
A sustainability veteran with more than 24 years’ experience, Stangis has built sustainability teams at both Intel and Campbell Soup . WSJ Pro: Do you have a favorite sustainable product or service, that isn’t an Apollo company? In terms of our regulatory reporting, we made some great progress, but it’s also helping and building the tools for our portfolio companies. Stangis: We’ve got data from all of our portfolio companies from surveys of 100-plus questions every year. So our portfolio companies, they’re literally doing sustainability reporting to us, we’re compiling it and then making that public.
Persons: Dave Stangis, Stangis, Campbell, it’s, we’ve, I’ve, , We’ve, they’re, we’re, Rochelle Toplensky Organizations: Apollo Global Management, Intel, Pro, Business, Campbell Soup Company, WSJ, Private Equity, Flagship Fund, Apollo, Rochelle, rochelle.toplensky@wsj.com Locations: Europe, Asia, Paris, Detroit, U.S, Russia, Ukraine, decarbonize, we’ve
The two biggest funds at Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital are down by more than 10% this year. According to HSBC's weekly report, the flagship fund has lost close to 12%. Weinstein came into 2023 bearish about the economy, which has been resilient despite rising rates. Saba Capital — the $4.8 billion hedge fund manager run by Boaz Weinstein — hasn't had the best year. Two of its funds — the flagship and a more hedged version — are down 11.9% and 10.6%, respectively, through November 10, according to the latest edition of HSBC's Hedge Weekly.
Persons: Boaz Weinstein's, Weinstein, Boaz Weinstein — hasn't, Organizations: Saba, HSBC's, Financial Times, Federal Reserve, Business Locations: Boaz Weinstein's Saba, Saba Capital, New York
Biotech hedge funds couldn't escape a tough October, sources told Insider. Managers like Perceptive Advisors and RTW Investments lost more than 9% in just a month's time. While big-name hedge funds were able to avoid some of the market's pain last month, biotech specialists were hit hard. Some funds, including Perceptive Advisors, RTW Investments, and San Francisco-based Redmile Group, had a tough October thanks to pain across the biotech space, according to sources familiar with their performance. The flagship fund at $8 billion Perceptive Advisors, run by billionaire Joseph Edelman, lost 9.5% in the month, bringing its yearly performance to a loss of 8.7%.
Persons: Joseph Edelman, Davidson Kempner, Roderick Wang Organizations: Biotech, RTW Investments Locations: Moderna, San Francisco
Private equity superstores overstock the shelves
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Liam Proud | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Private equity investors seem happier these days shopping for returns at specialty shops over supermarkets. U.S. private equity funds raised some $240 billion in the first nine months of 2023, according to research outfit PitchBook, 13% less than a year earlier. New York-based CD&R in August raised $26 billion for its 12th-generation private equity fund while Eurocentric CVC managed an even more eye-popping $29 billion in July. A better explanation, from the consultants who advise LPs on where to put their cash, is that private equity supermarkets may be cannibalising themselves. Until they can prove otherwise, the more scattered private equity superstores risk losing more ground to the specialists.
Persons: Clayton, Blackstone, Steve Schwarzman, Marc Rowan, don’t, Rowan, Rob Lucas, Blackstone’s, they’re, Lucas, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Thomas Shum Organizations: Reuters, Rice, CVC Capital Partners, Apollo Global Management, Blackstone Capital Partners IX, , IX, CVC, Apollo, Blackstone, U.S, Thomson Locations: Dubilier, New York, Blackstone, Asia, Luxembourg, Europe, Americas
They added that the fund had about a negative 2% performance for the year to the end of October. The CGI fund, at the end of June had been down about 8%, added one of the sources. The CGI fund did well from a view that the Bank of Japan would ease its ultra-loose monetary policy, said two of the sources. They also said short bets that bond prices would fall, as well as bets the U.S. Treasury yield curve would steepen were some of the top earners for the fund. Caxton's CGI fund also profited from the difference between Japanese and U.S. stock prices, the sources said, adding that losses on commodities bets in gold and a yen hedge detracted from performance.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Andrew Law's, Caxton, Jerome Powell, Bruce Kovner, Nell Mackenzie, Carolina Mandl, Svea Herbst Bayliss, Maiya, Dhara Ranasinghe, Kirsten Donovan, David Evans Organizations: REUTERS, Caxton Associates, Caxton Global Investments, Bank of Japan, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Thomson
Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey uses his phone outside of Hendon Magistrates' Court whilst facing one charge of indecent assault, in Hendon, London, Britain February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville/ File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Odey Asset Management, one of Britain's best known hedge funds, will shut, it said on Tuesday in a statement on its website, less than six months after its founder faced fresh allegations of misconduct. Crispin Odey, 64, was ousted in June from Odey Asset Management (OAM), which he founded in 1991, after the Financial Times and Tortoise Media reported that 13 women had alleged that he had sexually assaulted or harassed them. Where each fund manager would move, or if their fund was closed without finding an alternative home, was detailed on the hedge fund's website. No new fund manager for Sophia Whitbread, the only female portfolio manager listed, was named.
Persons: Crispin Odey, Toby Melville, Odey, James Hanbury, Jamie Grimston, Oliver Kelton, Freddie Neave, Geoffrey Marson, Canaccord Genuity, Adrian Courtenay, Green, Sophia Whitbread, Peter Martin, Nell Mackenzie, Alun John, Mark Potter Organizations: Hendon Magistrates, REUTERS, Odey, Management, Odey Asset Management, Financial Times, Tortoise Media, Asset Management, Lancaster Investment Management, Reuters, Inc, Bainbridge Partners, Thomson Locations: Hendon, Hendon , London, Britain, S.W, Mitchell
SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Singapore state investment firm Temasek's (TEM.UL) wholly owned unit True Light Capital said on Thursday it raised $3.3 billion in its flagship fund that invests in Greater China and has now closed it to new capital. The Singapore-based asset manager said in a statement the True Light Fund I secured capital from global investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, financial institutions, and family offices. The closing of the fund indicates that True Light can now focus on investing the capital. The fund will invest alongside Temasek in opportunities related to Greater China, True Light said. It invests directly in private and public equity as well as indirectly through private equity and venture funds, it added.
Persons: Yeo Chee Kian, Yibing Wu, Yantoultra Ngui, Muralikumar Organizations: U.S, Temasek, Milken Institute Asia, Thomson Locations: SINGAPORE, Singapore, Greater China, China, Taiwan
Insider Today: Tech's biggest lie
  + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
In recent years, some members of Congress have lacked a basic understanding of technology, let alone something as complex as generative AI. Marc Benioff spent much of the annual Dreamforce conference sounding the alarms on how untrustworthy generative AI is right now. Marc Benioff spent much of the annual Dreamforce conference sounding the alarms on how untrustworthy generative AI is right now. It's International Equal Pay Day. The UN General Assembly created this day in 2019 with "equal pay for work of equal value" in mind.
Persons: Mark Sumersett, isn't, Simon Simard, Daron Acemoglu, Insider's Aki Ito, Acemoglu, hasn't, Aki, It's, Nat Friedman, Rebecca Zisser, Peter Brown, Marc Benioff, Salesforce, Greg Johnson, Gary Reyes, Janette Beckman, Getty, Johnny Nunez, Lynn Goldsmith, Dakarai Akil, Tupac, Akon, Sean Kingston, Gucci Mane, There's, Carly Pearce, Valter Longo, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Service, MIT, Renaissance Technologies, Bloomberg Beta, McAfee, Oakland Tribune Staff, Interscope Records, Academy of Country, FOX, UN, Assembly, Getty Locations: Wall, Silicon, New York City, San Diego, London, New York
When it was raising fresh money from investors in 2020, one slide on the pitch deck for the hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors got to the heart of the issue: "Why Schonfeld?" A hedge fund recruiterAmid the weakness, the fund has begun to prune costs. Steve Schonfeld (class of 1977) and Brad Tolkin (class of 1976) attended Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights, New York. Tolkin told Insider in 2019 that the firm's goal was no less than becoming "the premier equities hedge fund globally." While Steven Schonfeld's 20% annual-return goals would've been ambitious for any sizable hedge fund, returns have also lagged behind peers.
Persons: Israel Englander, Ryan Tolkin, Steve Schonfeld, hasn't, It's, Schonfeld, Quita Ramirez, Trina Geatz, who've, Tolkin, Goldman Sachs, Andrew Fishman, Goldman Sachs —, Steven Schonfeld's, Ryan Tolkin's, Brad Tolkin, Brad, Jeff, Alex Morrell Steve, CJ, Sean, Ryan, Brad Tolkin's, Steven Schonfeld, Ryan —, who's, Steve, Michael Gelband, Michael Englander, Izzy Englander's, Steven, Sharpe, Fishman, Michael Nagle, Colin Lancaster, would've, Brevan Howard, ExodusPoint Organizations: Citadel, Duke, Goldman, Long, Newsday, Schonfeld Securities, Roslyn High School, American Express, Cleveland Cavaliers, Jewish, , Bloomberg, Strategic Partners, Equity, Schonfeld, Nasdaq, Management Locations: Israel, Miami, Stamford , Connecticut, Manhattan, Delta, Duke, Long Island, Roslyn Heights , New York
Citadel is having a good year, with its flagship fund Wellington up about 9%, Bloomberg reported. The strong performance follows Citadel's record profits of $16 billion last year. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyBillionaire Ken Griffin's hedge fund Citadel is notching up another strong year. Citadel's strong numbers build on 2022's record profits of $16 billion for investors. It also helps offset a 35% plunge in trading revenue for Citadel during the first half of this year amid a decline in market volatility.
Persons: Ken Griffin's, John Paulson Organizations: Citadel, Wellington, Bloomberg, Service, Privacy, Energy Locations: Wall, Silicon, Wellington, Ukraine, Chicago
Private equity bites off mostly what it can chew
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Jonathan Guilford | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Private equity firms notched nearly $300 billion of acquisitions worldwide through Aug. 15, according to Dealogic data. Deals in the $1 billion to $5 billion range are running closest to the same pace as 2022. STG, for example, secured a loan to value of more than 40% from private lenders. With capital tighter, it’s easy to understand why buyout firms are pursuing humbler deals more likely to exceed the minimum returns investors expect. GTCR’s plan to buy 55% of Worldpay at a $17.5 billion valuation requires an equity check equivalent to 15% of the buyout firm’s assets.
Persons: Simon & Schuster, STG, Clayton, Rice, Banks, Ares Capital’s, hasn’t, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: KKR, New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Avid Technology, GTCR, TPG, Francisco Partners, Bain Consulting, Thomson, & $ Locations: New York, U.S, can’t, Dubilier
A continued rally in stocks forced many hedge funds to unwind their bets against equities last month. US BOND MARKET LIQUIDITYBridgewater actively bets on the direction of various types of securities — including stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies — by predicting macroeconomic trends. He said that liquidity in the U.S. government bond market was getting worse, as the Treasury increases bond issuance. Bridgewater's Pure Alpha 12% volatility fund gained 2.5% in the year through Aug. 11, a third source familiar with the matter said, while the Defensive Alpha fund, less dependent on equities, rose 2.1%. Since it was launched in 1991, Pure Alpha 12% has generated 7.7% net total returns annually, according to the same source.
Persons: Ray Dalio, Greg Jensen, Bridgewater's, Nell Mackenzie, Ira Iosebashvili, Michelle Price, Emelia Organizations: U.S ., Singapore, Bridgewater Associates, Reuters, Nasdaq, Treasury, Alpha, Hedge Fund Research, Thomson Locations: Bridgewater, U.S, London, Carolina, New York
At the same time, ValueAct told investors in a letter seen by Reuters that three partners, including the firm's president Brandon Boze, are leaving. Boze will retire from the firm in 2024 and partners Dylan Haggart and Sarah Coyne will leave. ValueAct also pushed to replace four Seven & i Holdings directors with its own candidates this year, a campaign rejected by shareholders. "Rob has built what we believe is the premiere engagement investing franchise in Japan," the letter said. ValueAct said Coyne identified long-term super cycles as the market reached to short term datapoints.
Persons: Robert Hale, Mason Morfit, ValueAct, Brandon Boze, Boze, Dylan Haggart, Sarah Coyne, Morfit, Jeff Ubben, Hale, Rob, Haggart, Coyne, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Nick Zieminski Organizations: Reuters, Microsoft, San, Fund, Japan Fund, Olympus, Holdings, Elliott Investment Management, Ubben's Inclusive, Spotify, New York Times, Svea, Thomson Locations: Japan, San Francisco, Seagate, Salesforce
Aug 3 (Reuters) - Chase Coleman's Tiger Global has built a big stake in private equity firm Apollo Global (APO.N) as the hedge fund looks outside of technology investments in a hunt for better returns, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The investment in Apollo, which Tiger described as a "leading global alternative investment manager", was revealed to investors in a mid-year letter, the report said, without disclosing the size of the stake. Tiger Global amassed the stake this year and has also "selectively added" other new holdings in the aerospace and healthcare sectors, the report said. Tiger Global and Apollo Global did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Tiger's push into non-tech companies comes amid a recovery in its main hedge fund, which at the half-year point of 2022 had lost about 50% of its value compared to 2021, the FT said.
Persons: Chase, Tiger, Shivani Tanna, Arun Koyyur Organizations: Tiger, Apollo, Financial Times, Tiger Global, Apollo Global, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru
OAM, which declined to comment, will send out further correspondence about how the Odey European Inc fund will be restructured, the letter said. OAM reorganised many of its funds in June and Neave took over the flagship Odey European Inc fund, amid fears of an investor exodus following the allegations. Since then, Neave has reduced the size of the hedge fund's investments in stocks, bonds and, in June, sold out of its gold futures. The fund closed out its direct exposure to gold futures, the letter said. Odey European Inc has kept some exposure to commodities through long positions related to the crude and palm oil company stocks, the letter said.
Persons: Freddie Neave, Crispin Odey's, Crispin Odey, Odey, Neave, Leopalace, Nell Mackenzie, Amanda Cooper, Alexander Smith Organizations: Reuters, Odey Asset Management, Financial Times, Tortoise Media, Inc, United Rentals, Learning Technologies, Jadestone Energy, Thomson
Bill Miller, the value investor known for once beating the market for 15 years in a row, is also well recognized as an early investor in bitcoin and Amazon . Miller made his name by running the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust, which beat the S & P 500 every year from 1991 to 2005. He left Legg Mason to found Miller Value Partners in 2012 after the fund suffered steep losses and an exodus of assets during the financial crisis. Samantha McLemore, Miller's longtime co-manager, will assume management of Miller Opportunity Trust through her firm Patient Capital. His eldest son, Bill Miller IV, will become the lead manager for the Miller Income Fund.
Persons: Bill Miller, Miller, Legg Mason, Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, bitcoin, who's, Samantha McLemore, Miller's, Bill Miller IV Organizations: Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust, Miller Value Partners, Amazon, Opportunity Trust, Morningstar, Delta Air Lines, Cruise Line, Big Tech, Miller Opportunity Trust, Capital, Miller Income Fund Locations: bitcoin
Australia’s $2.5 trln pension stash is one to envy
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Antony Currie | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
Sure, mining giant BHP (BHP.AX) has its headquarters in Australia’s second-most populous city, it’s a self-anointed coffee capital and boasts top-notch restaurants. Two other factors have capital-hungry institutions knocking on super funds’ doors. This is especially true of so-called industry funds that are mutually owned and initially catered to specific sectors such as higher education employees or hospitality workers. Daniel Andrews, premier of Victoria, has earmarked industry super funds as minority investors in a state-run plan to build renewable energy plants. Recent ructions in real estate have prompted some super funds to reassess whether the risk and complexity are justified.
Persons: dwarfing, AustralianSuper, California’s CalPERS, London’s, Paul Schroder, Hostplus, Anthony, Daniel Andrews, Breakingviews, outsized, Peter Thal Larsen, Thomas Shum Organizations: MELBOURNE, Reuters, Australian Stock Exchange, Association, Retirement, Canada, Plan Investment Board, Prudential Regulation Authority, APRA, Coal, IFM, Vienna Airport, KPMG, Reuters Graphics, Australian, Trust, Macquarie, Victorian State Department of, UniSuper, Sydney Airport, Victoria, Blackstone, CVC, Thomson Locations: Hong Kong, Melbourne, Australia’s, it’s, Australia, Heathrow, Edinburgh, Europe, United States, Indiana, New York, London
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