Hedge Funds
Hedge funds had their best year since 2009. These 2 strategies drove the biggest returns
Key Points Hedge funds landed their biggest annual gain in 16 years, with equity strategies and thematic macroeconomic funds leading the charge. Healthcare, energy and commodities markets offered fertile territory last year, as fund managers weathered tariff turbulence and crypto corrections. 2025 saw positive performances across a range of investment approaches, with industry mainstays Citadel […]
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Venezuela bond bets pay off as Maduro’s overthrow brings 30% gain. This hedge fund says there’s more ahead
The revival of Venezuela’s oil industry presents investors with a major opportunity in the country’s defaulted debt, according to a firm that generated a 30% gain after the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, was captured by U.S. forces on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with oil […]
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Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund at Citadel rises 10.2% in volatile 2025
Key Points Citadel’s flagship multistrategy Wellington fund, its largest, gained 10.2% in 2025, according to a person familiar with the firm’s returns. The firm’s tactical trading fund, which combines equities with quantitative strategies, advanced 18.6% in 2025, the person said. Source
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This fund logged a 950% return on SpaceX. Here’s what happened next
The Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust has generated a near-950% return on its position in Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX. The closed-end investment trust, which is managed by Baillie Gifford, invests in publicly-listed and privately-held technology companies that focus on innovation and disruption globally. Edinburgh Worldwide first invested in SpaceX in 2018. […]
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Check out the winning hedge fund strategies of 2025
Healthcare stocks, media and telecoms companies, and Asian equities were among hedge funds’ best trades this year, with just two weeks left on the calendar. Overall, equity-focused funds — which trade stocks long and short by sector, geography or theme — are the top-performing category in the 11 months to the end of November, according […]
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Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust urges shareholders to throw out Boaz Weinstein’s bid to overhaul board
Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, a Baillie Gifford-run technology-focused fund, is calling on shareholders to throw out a plan by Boaz Weinstein’s activist investment fund Saba Capital to overhaul its board of directors. The EWIT board said on Wednesday it would “strongly urge” shareholders to reject a plan by the U.S. hedge fund — which holds […]
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UK hedge fund Kernow says this cruise operator’s share price could surge by over 400%
A contrarian stock picker has said a U.K.travel, insurance and financial services company could see its share price rise more than 400% in five years. Saga plc , which targets the over-50s, is a “materially undervalued” business, according to Alyx Wood, co-founder and chief investment officer of Kernow Asset Management, who described the stock as […]
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Saba Capital activist Boaz Weinstein calls for removal of Baillie Gifford-run tech investment trust’s entire board
Boaz Weinstein is calling for the removal of the entire board of a tech-focused fund managed by Baillie Gifford, in a bid to reverse what the activist investor sees as “unprecedented” value destruction. In a letter to the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust’s board on Thursday, Weinstein — whose activist investment firm Saba Capital owns around […]
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Three ways for investors to trade the UK Autumn budget
Investors say the pessimism looming over U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ crucial Autumn Budget this week masks a range of contrarian opportunities across different sectors and asset classes. Ahead of the chancellor’s critical statement this week — which could herald tax rises, spending cuts, or a combination of the two — fund managers are lining […]
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Three shorts and a long: The big investor calls at this year’s Sohn London conference
Hedge funds weighed in with short bets against a location tracking app, a U.S. real estate investment trust and a Swedish medical technology stock at this year’s Sohn London conference. Lombardi Capital founder Igor Kryca, meanwhile, who began his career at U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s hedge fund, went long on a German brakes manufacturer. […]
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