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- Goldman Sees Stock Rebound Setup but Warns of 2027 Inflation Risk
Global manufacturing import-price inflation has reached an annualized six-month pace of about 24%, while producer prices are rising at about 11% annualized.
· Investing
- Hedge Funds Log Deepest Global Equity Retreat in More Than a Decade
Asia’s fundamental stock pickers led the retreat, while leverage across all prime-brokerage clients stayed at 314.2%, the 85th percentile of the past year.
· Investing
- JPMorgan Says Long Momentum Portfolio Had Its Worst Month Since 1985
The portfolio lagged the broader market by 11% in October as hedge funds sold global technology stocks at their fastest net pace since 2016.
· Investing
- Models Signal $45 Billion in Potential S&P 500 Futures Selling
The coming-week estimate is $28 billion, while negative trading signals appear across about 60% of global equity markets.
· Investing
- Poesis Plans to Open AI Clarity to Outside Clients in Early 2027
The strategy targets 80 to 100 large-cap U.S. stocks, with AI agents handling research and trade timing while managers set risk limits and approve trades.
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- Hedge Funds Sell Tech at Near-Record Pace as AI Trade Faces Reassessment
Technology was the most net-sold sector globally and in the United States. U.S. fundamental long-short funds cut gross leverage by 8.7 percentage points to 207.5%.
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- Leveraged ETFs Were Set to Sell a Record $57 Billion in U.S. Stocks
Retail investors' selling in the first 90 minutes ranked second-largest since 2016, while long-short hedge funds cut net leverage 5% on Nov. 5.
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- Hedge Funds Cut Stock Teams After October Losses as Semiconductor Index Falls 12%
Balyasny lost 3.4% in October, while Engineers Gate retained five fundamental managers from its Synthesis group.
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- Aspex Management Lost About 16% in October Tech Selloff
The pan-Asian equity manager had $14 billion in assets under management and remained up 9% for the year through October.
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- Samlyn Capital Sells Nearly All Stocks Outside Financials, Cuts Senior Analysts
The $7 billion equity hedge fund is keeping analysts who cover financial companies. It was down about 5% year to date as of October.
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- CEO Says Number of Hedge Funds in Liquidation Is Highest Since 2009
The unnamed executive called the liquidations necessary and part of a market-bottoming process, while warning that more downside pressure remained.
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- Walleye and Engineers Gate Post October Losses; Both Make Equity Changes
Walleye lost 5.9% and plans to return part of its capital, while Engineers Gate recorded a 5.5% loss.
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- Hedge Funds Net-Sold $20 Billion in Tech Stocks as AI Net-Long Positions Were Erased
Walleye Capital lost 5.9% in October, its worst monthly performance since March 2020, as several hedge funds also posted losses.
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- Traders Cite Hedge-Fund Liquidations as a Driver of U.S. Stock Selloff
Traders and analysts have pointed to forced selling rather than weaker corporate fundamentals. Market expectations include full fund closures and forced exits by teams inside multi-strategy firms.
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- Tiger Global Hedge Fund Sheds 8.5% in October Amid AI Worries
Whale Rock, D1 Capital Partners and Atreides Management also lost ground, while Coatue Management gained 0.2%.
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- Walleye Capital Plans Capital Return as It Streamlines Equity Business
$17 billion refers to assets under management. The fund said it assessed its optimal size before deciding to return some capital.
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- Citadel’s Wellington Fund Rose 1.7% in October as Peers Slid
Its 15.3% year-to-date return led the comparison, while each listed peer remained positive for 2026.
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- Hedge Funds Turn Underweight on AI for First Time Since Early 2023
Managers are concerned that large AI infrastructure investments are not producing returns quickly enough, while Alphabet and Amazon earnings have unsettled investors.
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- Xantium Plans First-Half 2027 Spinout With About $9 Billion in Assets
The quantitative hedge fund plans to leave Tudor, the investment firm of billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, and operate independently.
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- Borrowing to Short Stocks Nears Five-Year High as Anthropic IPO Could Renew AI Interest
Goldman Sachs hedge fund clients sold short about $5 in stocks for every $1 they bought in October.
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- Millennium Develops Tool to Use Prediction Market Data in Trades
The hedge fund, with about $97 billion under management, is developing a tool for portfolio managers. It has not begun trading prediction market contracts directly.
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- Hedge Funds Could Shrink Treasury Positions With Swap-Spread Trades
The shift could preserve leveraged rate exposure while reducing the Treasury futures, cash bond and repo positions tied to basis trades.
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- Goldman Sachs Logs Record Tech Selling as AI Investors Demand Revenue
Rich Privorotsky said hyperscalers need to show cloud growth, convert backlogs into revenue and explain when they can reach free-cash-flow break-even.
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- Two Macro Portfolio Managers Leave ExodusPoint Within a Year
Chris Wheeler and Daniel Dangoor each led a macro team and were based in Dubai at the $15.5 billion hedge fund.
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- Goldman Sachs Executive Puts Fundamental Long-Short Funds’ Net Exposure at 0% to 9%
In an interview recorded Oct. 7, Mark Wilson discussed funds’ net equity exposure, a measure distinct from short-sale flows and short leverage.
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- Global Hedge Fund Short Leverage Reaches 99th Percentile of Five-Year Range
Short trading has run about five to one against long buying. Fundamental long-short funds’ net leverage is near a three-year low.
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- Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Post $51.9 Billion in Equity-Related Revenue
Goldman’s Equities financing revenue rose 96%, while JPMorgan’s strongest areas included Prime and Derivatives. Separately, hedge fund equity positions and margin loans grew relative to advanced-economy GDP.
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- Former Sequoia Global Equities Head Jeff Wang’s Augnition Raises More Than $1 Billion
The technology hedge fund launched with at least $570 million in capital, about 45% of it internal.
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- Augnition US Fund Files SEC Notice for Delaware Hedge Fund Offering
The U.S. partnership listed $0 in sales and zero investors as of its Sept. 30 filing. Jeff Wang’s firm focuses on public and private technology companies.
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- Hedge Funds Cut Tech at Record Pace as Leveraged ETFs Draw $9.5 Billion
Semiconductor and equipment stocks accounted for 57% of net U.S. technology selling, while about $7 billion flowed into SOXL.
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- Goldman Clients Cut Tech Positions by Largest Percentage in Records Dating to 2016
Technology retained a 23.5% net allocation in Goldman’s global prime brokerage book, at the 90th percentile of its five-year history. Net leverage fell to a one-year low of 48.6%.
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- Bank of England Deputy Governor Warns Hedge Funds Raise Bond Risks
Sarah Breeden said leveraged, internationally active funds may make stress in one government bond market spread to others. The industry has about $13 trillion in gross assets.
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- Hedge Funds Erase All Net Buying in Global AI Stocks Since 2025
Wednesday’s hedge fund selling of global AI stocks moved at the second-fastest pace recorded.
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- Global Stock-Picking Funds Lose 2.9% in Week as AI Stocks Fall
Asia-focused stock pickers lost 6.8% in the first half of October; since a late-June peak, when they were up more than 40% for the year, they have surrendered more than half those gains. U.S. CPI rose 3.7% year over y…
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- Cambrian Launches AI Hedge Fund With About $70 Million in Seed Funding
Dework founder Lonis Hamaili announced the launch. Metaplanet and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn are among the fund’s supporters.
· Business
- Hedge Funds’ Magnificent Seven Exposure Reaches Record 22%
Net exposure has climbed 7 percentage points since July 2026, surpassing the previous 21% high set in June 2024.
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- Hedge Fund Net Exposure to Magnificent Seven Rose to Nearly 22%
The exposure reached its highest level since 2022 on a prime brokerage book, marking a multiyear high in hedge fund concentration.
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- Qube Research Invests in Treadfi as It Expands Crypto Trading
The London-based quantitative hedge fund is hiring crypto-focused researchers and traders and assessing external managers for separately managed accounts.
· Business
- Crowded Treasury Shorts Raise Risk of a Sharp Yield Reversal
The 30-year Treasury yield exceeded 5.61% Sept. 30, while large short positions in five- and 10-year futures leave markets exposed to abrupt moves if economic data weakens.
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- Hedge Funds Reach Record 7% Share of U.S. Treasury Market
Hedge funds held $2 trillion in cash Treasurys at the end of 2025 as leverage and short-term funding raised concerns about forced selling.
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