By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Some hedge funds that bet on macroeconomic trends boasted eye-popping double and even triple digit gains for 2022, investors said, while other prominent firms that were long on technology stocks got clobbered with deep losses in volatile markets. Rokos Capital, run by Chris Rokos and one of a handful…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -An investor with a large stake in Venator Materials Plc has asked for board seats, criticizing the chemical company’s poor financial performance and a 96% drop in its share price, in a letter it sent to the board on Tuesday. J&T MS 1 SICAV owns 14.3% of Venator and…
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley has bumped up its China growth, stock market and yuan forecasts again, becoming the latest Wall Street heavyweight to do so as the country rapidly dismantles two years of tight COVID-19 restrictions. The bank’s moves included raising its Chinese economic growth forecast 0.3 percentage points to 5.7%,…
By Saeed Azhar, Niket Nishant and Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. banking giants are forecast to report lower fourth quarter profits this week as lenders stockpile rainy-day funds to prepare for an economic slowdown that is battering investment banking. Four American banking giants — JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup…
By Summer Zhen and Samuel Shen HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Bridgewater has doubled its fund assets in China to more than 20 billion yuan ($2.93 billion) over the past year, according to two sources and government data, a feat that cements its position as the biggest foreign hedge fund in the country. The jump was…
(This Jan. 9 story has been corrected to fix AUM of Nuvama Wealth Management in the fourth paragraph after the fund issued a correction) By Bhakti Tambe MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian investors are looking to increase the proportion of debt in their portfolios on expectations of a peak in policy tightening, a desire to lock…
By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) – Investment management firm AQR’s Absolute Return Strategy in 2022 saw its best year since its inception since 1998, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday. The $100 billion firm AQR reaped top performances from several of its strategies, taking advantage of strong trends across futures and markets…
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Star stock picker Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest sold 403,990 shares of embattled crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital Corp on Thursday as shares in the firm plunged more than 40%, according to disclosures by Ark Invest. The selling nearly liquidated the firm’s share holdings and came from the $645 million…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Deutsche Bank AG appointed Michael Heaney, a retired Morgan Stanley executive, as chairman of its U.S. arm, the German bank said on Thursday. Heaney had a three-decade career at Morgan Stanley, ultimately rising to become its global co-head of fixed income sales and trading while serving on its management committee. The executive…
(Reuters) – Kenneth Griffin’s Citadel marked record revenues in its hedge fund and electronic-trading businesses for 2022 despite turmoil in global capital markets, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The hedge fund operation made about $28 billion in revenue, while Citadel Securities, one of the world’s biggest electronic-trading firms, brought in $7.5…
