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06/13/2018

BitGo Still Aiming for Custodian Role

Details are emerging about a plan by BitGo to offer qualified-custodian services to cryptocurrency hedge funds.

06/06/2018

Falcon Edge's Gerson Directs Seeding Effort

Falcon Edge Capital founder Richard Gerson, linked in recent news reports to meetings between Abu Dhabi officials and associates of President Trump, is...

05/30/2018

Funds Brace for Money-Laundering Rules

Hedge fund lawyers and administrators are busy helping managers of offshore funds comply with stricter anti-money-laundering regulations in the Cayman...

05/23/2018

Harvard Management Alums Ready to Go

Two former Harvard University endowment executives are putting the finishing touches on an equity fund that’s set to launch around midyear.

05/16/2018

Premium Point Debacle Detected Early On

A large fund-of-funds manager raised a red flag about Premium Point Investments’ asset-valuation policy seven years before a federal grand jury...

05/09/2018

New Energy Fund Employs Machine Learning

The founders of a technology company that uses machine learning to more accurately predict the capacity of oil-and-gas fields are marketing a fund that...

05/02/2018

Bayview Completes Buyback From Blackstone

Bayview Asset Management has finished buying back a large minority stake it sold to Blackstone as the financial crisis was entering its worst...

04/25/2018

Viking LPs Pony Up for 'Liquid-Illiquid' Play

Viking Global has raised another $600 million for a lockup fund that invests in both highly liquid public equities and illiquid stakes in private...

04/11/2018

Tudor Ends Backing for LaunchPad Venture

Tudor Investment has cut its ties to LaunchPad Trading, a joint venture it formed in 2015 to seed up-and-coming macro traders.

03/28/2018

ExodusPoint to Launch With $2 Billion-Plus

After more than a year of speculation about his fund-raising potential, Michael Gelband is on track to launch his ExodusPoint Capital with at least $2...

03/21/2018

Katonah Bucks Trend of AI Underperformance

Katonah Capital appears to be one of the few artificial-intelligence fund operations to profit from last month’s volatility spike.

03/14/2018

Veteran Quant Manager Stumbles on Volatility

Quantitative Investment Management is off to a rough start this year, posting its weakest January-February returns in its 15-year history.