Several significant crypto hedge funds and traditional hedge funds with crypto exposure have either collapsed or barely escaped in 2022. Crypto price declines have tested the risk tolerances of these ...
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Hedge fund Fir Tree files lawsuit against Grayscale: Bloomberg
Hedge fund Fir Tree Capital Management is suing crypto investment fund Grayscale Investments for information to investigate potential mismanagement and conflicts of interest, Bloomberg News reported, ...
A Hedge Fund Hit by FTX Collapse Defaults on $36 Million of Debt
(Bloomberg) — Contagion from the messy implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire is spilling into the world of decentralized finance, after a hedge fund was declared in default on almost $3...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used Stolen Customer Money for Hedge Fund Trading
Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong says that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was using stolen customer money to fund his trading firm Alameda Research. While Bankman-Fried continues to deny knowingly com...
Arbitrage Trading Crypto Hedge Fund Evades the Bears
The majority of funds based on crypto assets are down this year, but not all of them. A hedge fund that engages in arbitrage trading has actually performed well in 2022. The crypto contagions of 2022 ...
Hedge Fund Veteran Mark Yusko Predicts Bitcoin Will Replace Gold, Unveils Massive BTC Price Target
A seasoned hedge fund manager says that Bitcoin (BTC) will eventually replace gold, and predicts the king crypto will hit a six-figure price tag. In a new interview with Stansberry Research, veteran h...
Three Arrows Capital liquidators begin taking control of failed hedge fund’s assets
Teneo, the advisory firm overseeing the liquidation of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), has taken control of some of its assets, according to a presentation deck obtained by The Block. &#...
Rishi Sunak’s old hedge fund boss paid himself $1.9 million a day this year
The U.K. is in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis, with real wages declining at a record rate this year—but amid the economic turmoil, one of the country’s wealthiest people cashed in on a record p...
Crypto hedge funds seek Wall Street-style segmentation following FTX’s fall
Cryptocurrency hedge funds got burned in FTX’s bankruptcy and are now looking into bringing the financial segmentation that made Wall Street more stable. FTX used to be a popular venue among professio...
Should you sell the British pound in 2023? Hedge fund Rokos believes so
The COVID-19 pandemic took some heat away from the British pound, given Brexit. But Brexit is one of the causes of further weakness for the pound, according to Rokos Capital Management, an alternative...
Carvana Stock Is Causing Pain, With Hedge Funds Set to Feel the Worst
(Bloomberg) — The spectacular plunge of Carvana Co.’s stock price is bringing pain to many investors, but one elite group on Wall Street is feeling it acutely — hedge funds. Most Read from...
Microsoft overtakes Amazon as most popular hedge fund bet: Goldman Sachs
Wall Street’s fast money has a new favorite bet. Microsoft (MSFT) has replaced Amazon (AMZN) as the most popular top 10 holding among hedge funds, strategists at Goldman Sachs led by Ben Snider ...
Hedge Funds Have Been Shunning Momentum — To Their Peril
As the stock markets have plunged, hedge funds have done the only thing they could do to protect themselves. Overall, funds remain in a holding pattern—with their lowest exposure to equities since 200...
Berkshire Scores Big With Japanese Investments. Currency Hedge Is Key.
One of Berkshire Hathaway ‘s bigger investment scores in recent years was the purchase of a group of five Japanese trading companies that now are showing an estimated profit of about $4 billion on an ...
Hedge Fund Billionaire Bill Ackman Reverses Stance on Crypto After Years of Skepticism – Here’s Why
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has taken a completely different stance on crypto after being skeptical of the space for years. Ackman, the founder and chief executive of the hedge fund Pershing Squa...
Billionaire hedge fund manager still bullish on crypto – crypto.news
Despite the recent collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the market upheaval that followed it, billionaire investor and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman claims he is still optimistic about cry...
$138,400,000,000 Asset Manager Gearing Up To Launch New Crypto Hedge Fund by End of Year: Report
An investment firm with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets under its management is reportedly looking to launch a crypto hedge fund by the end of the year. According to a new report by Bl...
Here’s what this hedge fund manager thinks of crypto despite the FTX wreck
Pershing Square Capital Management’s founder and CEO, Bill Ackman, stated that cryptocurrency has the potential to tremendously benefit society. However, this was as long as the sector managed to wipe...
Hedge fund investor Bill Ackman shills crypto, reveals investment
Hedge fund investor Bill Ackman on Nov. 20 said he is no longer a crypto skeptic after he found interesting crypto projects that enabled the formation of useful businesses and technologies. The teleph...
Investment Firm ‘Man Group’ To Start Crypto Hedge Fund
Bitcoin News As per sources the new hedge fund may be ready by the year’s end. Man Group managed $138.4 billion in assets at the end of September. Despite the massive fall of FTX earlier this month. L...
London Hedge Fund to Start Crypto Boutique – Trustnodes
Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund with $142 billion in assets under management, is moving ahead with plans to launch a crypto hedge fund. “The firm’s computer-led trading unit ...
$138B investment manager Man Group to launch crypto hedge fund: Report
London-based investment manager Man Group Plc is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency hedge fund, signaling continued investor appetite for digital assets in the wake of FTX’s monumental collapse earl...
FTX will be the last giant to fall this cycle: Hedge fund co-founder
While the FTX crisis is continuing to unfold, the former head of risk at Credit Suisse believes the exchange’s fall from grace should be the last catastrophic event — at least in this market cyc...
Man Group close to launching crypto hedge fund despite FTX collapse: Bloomberg
Man Group, the biggest publicly traded hedge fund firm, is reportedly close to starting a crypto hedge fund. The crypto hedge fund strategy has been in development for several months, Bloomberg ...
Binance CEO CZ Calls SBF a ‘Psychopath,’ 3AC Co-Founder Accuses FTX, Alameda of Stop Hunting His Hedge Fund – Bitcoin News
During a conversation with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and the Milken Institute, the exchange executive called the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) a “psychopath” for one of the tweets SBF w...
Crypto Hedge Fund Veteran Mark Yusko Doubles Down on $100,000 Bitcoin Prediction – Here’s the Timeline
Morgan Creek Digital cryptocurrency hedge fund managing partner Mark Yusko is doubling down on a bullish prediction for Bitcoin (BTC) despite the recent market downturn. In a new interview with YouTub...
Crypto Hedge Fund Ikigai Caught in FTX Collapse, Large Majority of Firm’s Total Assets Stuck on Exchange: Founder
The crypto hedge fund Ikigai says most of its assets are stuck on the collapsed FTX digital asset exchange. Ikigai founder and Chief Investment Officer Travis Kling tells his 89,900 Twitter followers ...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Buyout Was A Billion Dollar Windfall For These 13 Hedge Funds
Wall Street billionaires Carl Icahn, Ken Griffin, Israel Englander and Daniel Loeb can thank Elon Musk for what might be 2022’s easiest money trade. For many hedge funds, Elon Musk’s $44 billion “forc...
Ikigai hedge fund hit hard by FTX collapse – crypto.news
A prominent hedge fund, Ikigai Fund, becomes the latest company to reveal its exposure to Sam Bankman-Fried’srecently dissolved crypto exchange, FTX. Chief Investment Officer Travis Kling disclosed th...
Crypto Hedge Fund Ikigai Loses Access to ‘Large Majority’ of Assets on FTX: Founder
As the FTX contagion spreads, Ikigai Fund founder Travis Kling announced on Twitter that most of its assets are stuck in the bankrupt Bahamas-based exchange. “We had a large majority of the hedg...
Travis Kling Opens Up About His Hedge Fund Exposure to FTX
Anurag is working as a fundamental writer for The Coin Republic since 2021. He likes to exercise his curious muscles and research deep into a topic. Though he covers various aspects of the crypto indu...