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  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Bitcoin
    Hedge funds’ bitcoin trade helps lift Grayscale assets to $38bn

    Cryptocurrency investing group has garnered a deluge of inflows, driven in part by arbitrage bets

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    Millennium emerges as top hedge fund investor in Spacs

    Izzy Englander’s group had more than $4.4bn in blank-cheque companies at end of 2020

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Due Diligence
    The hedge fund claiming the title of reigning Spac champion Premium

    Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management had invested $4.4bn in blank-cheque companies at end of 2020

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    News in-depthRetail trading
    US lawmakers focus ire on Robinhood in GameStop recriminations

    Trading app’s founder was on the defensive from start of a fiery hearing

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Retail trading
    GameStop hearing: Wall Street and Robinhood square off – as it happened
  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Due Diligence
    The GameStop circus heads to Capitol Hill Premium

    Featuring some hedge fund bosses, a fintech billionaire and a Roaring Kitty

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Retail trading
    Reddit day trader urges Wall Street probe ahead of GameStop hearing

    Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty, to testify alongside hedge fund boss who lost billions

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    LexNewspaper industry
    Google/News Corp/Alden: headline earnings Premium

    Hedge fund may now benefit from a change in the terms of trade with tech giants via the titles it has bought

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Crispin Odey
    Crispin Odey ‘lunged’ at female junior banker, court told

    Founder of hedge fund manager Odey Asset Management is accused of indecent assault in 1998

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    US equities
    Robinhood heads to the Hill: What to watch at the Congressional hearing

    Washington lawmakers to grill key protagonists in January’s amateur trading frenzy

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    ‘We got lucky’: hedge funds that cashed in on the Reddit rally

    Surge of amateur investors’ stock bets also boosted returns of some fund managers

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Hedge funds vs Citigroup: finder’s keepers Premium

    Unpacking the surprising court victory in the battle for the bank’s accidentally wired $900m

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    ESG investing
    Investment firm Covalis looks to raise $1bn for ESG fund

    Launch comes as hedge funds increasingly see moneymaking opportunity in green investing

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    FTfmJohn Dizard
    Big money ditches New York, moves family to Palm Beach

    Hedge funds and private equity tycoons escape aggressive state taxes and progressive lawmakers

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Marshall Wace Asset Management Ltd
    Hedge fund Marshall Wace seeks venture capital deals

    Shift shows how investors in public companies are seeking new sources of returns in private markets

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    Reddit-led market turmoil hits big quant hedge funds

    Short squeeze that sent price of GameStop rocketing has hurt some carefully placed bets

  • Saturday, 6 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    Melvin Capital, GameStop and the road to disaster

    Hedge fund faces questions over risk management after losing half its money in a Reddit trading frenzy

  • Saturday, 6 February, 2021
    On Wall StreetLaurence Fletcher
    Hedge funds resume role as Wall Street’s villains

    Industry reels from GameStop backlash but has plenty of experience in fending off attacks

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Gillian Tett
    The money behind Robinhood is pure Sheriff of Nottingham

    The discreet family offices that fund the broker may well emerge as the Reddit rebellion’s biggest winners

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    Hedge fund manager pleads guilty in Neiman Marcus bankruptcy case

    Marble Ridge Capital founder had acknowledged ‘grave mistake’ in tussle over MyTheresa assets

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Point72 Asset Management LP
    Steve Cohen’s Point72 raises $1.5bn

    Hedge fund takes in new cash after 10% decline in January

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Cineworld Group PLC
    Cineworld backs down in dispute with lenders over interest bill

    Cinema group risked default in holding out over contested additional costs

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Cairn Capital Ltd
    Mediobanca’s Cairn Capital to take over distressed debt firm Bybrook

    Move marks part of push by Italian lender into alternative investments

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    FT Swamp Notes
    Flash mobs, financialisation, and the future of liberal democracy Premium

    Day-traders putting the squeeze on hedge funders speaks to the economic, political and cultural moment

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Markets InsightJohn Plender
    GameStop is just latest sorry case of misallocated capital

    Price-insensitive investors are driving an increasing disconnect within economies and markets

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