Brexiteer Odey's fund loses 369 million euros

LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey lost about 369 million euros (313.03 million pounds) in the year to Nov. 14 despite being one of the biggest financial winners of Britain's vote to...

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Euro zone nations turn to hedge funds to meet borrowing needs

LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone governments are increasingly relying on hedge funds to help them meet their borrowing needs, which risks leaving them vulnerable to a debt market sell-off driven by a...

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Hedge in the cloud: funds outsourcing computing power step into unknown

LONDON (Reuters) - Tucked into the attic of a Georgian building in London's West End, seven people run a $200 million hedge fund following artificial intelligence formulas. But the supercomputers...

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Activist investor Oasis Management raises stake in Premier Foods

(Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Oasis Management Co Ltd has raised its stake in Britain's Premier Foods Plc to 5.18 percent, a regulatory filing on Thursday showed, sending the company's shares up as...

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No excuses for poor hedge fund performance - Lansdowne's Roden

TEL AVIV/LONDON, LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds should stop making excuses for poor performance, the chairman of Lansdowne Partners said on Wednesday against a backdrop of weak average returns that...

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Hedge fund Man Group's assets up 6 percent, buys real asset manager

LONDON (Reuters) - Man Group, the world's biggest listed hedge fund, said demand for its quantitative strategies and market gains pushed quarterly funds under management up 6 percent.

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Two big hedge funds unwind bets against Deutsche in sign of confidence

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two leading hedge funds which made big bets on Deutsche Bank shares falling are now reducing their "short" positions, in a sign of confidence in the stability of the...

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Brevan Howard hedge fund axes management fees for some current investors

LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm Brevan Howard, one of Europe's largest, will cut its main Master fund and its Multi-Strategy fund's management fees to zero for some current investors, a source...

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Marshall Wace unit launches private equity version of loans fund

LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Marshall Wace's subsidiary MW Eaglewood is raising money for a private equity version of its billion-dollar investment trust that invests in peer-to-peer and marketplace...

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Man Group's new CEO Ellis reshapes top team after Roman exit

LONDON (Reuters) - Man Group's new chief executive Luke Ellis shook up the top team of the world's biggest listed hedge fund on Friday following the shock departure of Manny Roman in June.

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Citadel hires ex BlueCrest portfolio manager for London office

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former BlueCrest Capital Management portfolio manager Ashish Goyal is set to join hedge fund manager Citadel, a Citadel spokesman said on Thursday.

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Political risk? Banking crisis? Investors buy euro zone debt anyway

LONDON(Reuters) - Unrelenting demand for fixed income has pushed yields, in Europe at least, to a point where investors no longer distinguish one country's bonds from another's -- potentially storing...

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Hedge fund BAM strategy move ends $250 million discretionary play - source

LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is closing a $250 million "discretionary" portfolio run by Torbjorn Andreassen who is leaving the firm, a source told Reuters on Thursday.

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