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...in stock markets as global interest rates sharply climbed brought only a minor reprieve, with long/short equity funds falling 13.5 per cent, 6 percentage points less than the decline suffered by the S&P...
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...While the S&P 500 has advanced steadily since October 27 (+22.1%), stock leadership has flipped 180° since the start of the year on shifting Fed policy forecasts....
...“You don’t need your hedge funds to beat the S&P every year, but you do want them to beat it over time, for instance over the past decade,” said a pension fund adviser who allocates billions of dollars to...
...There has been an explosion in funds in the US that use options in one form or another to act as a hedge, be that through so-called covered call writing, or more structured defined outcomes....
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...far smaller hedge than before....
...“A lot of people who would normally roll their futures put [their money] into SPY instead”, with the highly liquid SPDR ETF commonly “used for short-term tactical trading to hedge short-term tactical positioning...
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...TCI made $12.9bn for investors and ended last year up 33 per cent, ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 24 per cent rise....
...Hedge funds have missed out on November’s stock market gains in “brutal fashion”, he added....
...Jim Chanos, one of Wall Street’s most prominent bears, is closing his short-focused hedge funds after more than three decades, he told the Wall Street Journal....
...Ortenca Aliaj And so in years where you’ve had the S&P go down 20 per cent, you’ve had the multi-manager funds actually be up 15 or 10 per cent, in double digits....
...However, hedge fund short sellers continue to run sizeable bets against a number of miners....
...Data from S&P Global indicated that a fifth of the company’s stock — totalling €930mn — is being targeted by short sellers, who typically borrow shares in order to sell them, buying them back later to profit...
...He worked there from October 2018, and headed the firm’s S&P 500 options desk until his move to Millennium in February. Spottiswood worked for Jane Street from August 2020 to February....
...Much like the US tech giants hauling the S&P 500 higher, bitcoin is also dragging other prices along with it....
...Hedge funds are profiting after a series of well-timed bets against wind energy stocks, with some wagering there is further pain to come for the troubled sector....
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...Past elections have sparked market gyrations, giving investors reason to bet or hedge around them....
...The metric measures the price of options that enable investors to profit from swings in the S&P 500....
...One of Wall Street’s best-known bears, Jim Chanos, has told his backers he is closing his main short-focused hedge funds after more than three decades....
...The commodity/value/defensive-heavy FTSE 100 means it may also work as a stagflation hedge, should geopolitical/supply issues risks linger....
...Many are now snapping up options tied to the S&P that profit if the market keeps on rising....
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