Multi-strategy hedge funds have become increasingly important to institutional alternative allocations. In 2025, almost half of new hedge fund flows on my firm’s platform were allocated to ...

Cross hedging is a strategy to mitigate risk by taking opposite positions in two positively correlated assets. Understand its application with examples.

For many advisors, the question is not whether to use hedge funds, but which of the largest hedge funds belong in client portfolios. The biggest firms now manage roughly $5 trillion in assets, giving ...

Hedge funds are known for their high-risk and high-return approach to investment. Due to these practices, some funds are bound up to lose money. In other cases, investors plan a deliberate scheme to ...

Funds that bet on hedge funds instead of stocks or bonds are finally in vogue again. The double whammy of the financial crisis and Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme hit the fund-of-hedge-fund business so ...

Hedge funds entered 2025 with momentum and optimism. After a banner year in 2024, Goldman Sachs' February outlook report found "buoyant sentiment" among investors following "unequivocally one of the ...

The global hedge fund industry has surged past the $5 trillion asset mark, a milestone reflecting not only strong performance but also an evolution in how hedge funds position themselves in investment ...

The $5 trillion hedge fund industry is backed by some of the biggest pools of money in the world — pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds. But those big-name institutions are facing a cash ...

NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Hedge funds are using near-record levels of leverage to trade equities and betting on debt-backed strategies in efforts to juice returns, making the most of markets buoyed ...

Global authorities must step up their surveillance of lending by nonbank players like hedge funds and institutional investors to minimize risks to financial stability, Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem ...

On February 23, Bloomberg News reported that during the week ended February 19, hedge funds registered record-high net sales of global stocks, the highest since early April 2025.