Financial Stability Board urges Hedge Funds to hold more liquid assets in order to meet margin calls in case of market shocks 😱👀
Source: FT >>> https://lnkd.in/eJuU4sg2 Financial policymakers have urged hedge funds, pension investors and commodities traders to keep more liquid assets on hand and develop stress tests to better withstand shocks from extreme market moves. The Financial Stability Board, which includes the world’s leading finance ministers, central bankers and regulators, said on Wednesday that after assessing a series of recent market panics, many funds and traders had made “inadequate” preparation for sudden price moves. Its call increases the scrutiny of so-called non-bank financial institutions, which have become a larger part of trading in financial markets since the 2008 financial crisis. Many have come under deep strain from unexpected moves in market prices, from the March bond market meltdown at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, to the UK’s pension fund crisis in 2022, when a wave of selling by some pension fund strategies forced a Bank of England intervention.
Hedge funds are shorting Bitcoin at record levels.
Is another massive short squeeze ahead of us ? Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com
Goldman: "The institutional Bitcoin net long and hedgefund Bitcoin net short lengths are at record levels".
Is another epic squeeze coming? Source: www.zerohedge.com
Hedge funds are loading up on japanese stocks with the Nikkei at all-time highs
Source: Win Smart, CFA
Chinese Authorities froze a quant hedge fund's account for 3 days after it dumped more than $360 million worth of stocks within the first minute of trading.
Source: Barchart
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman to launch a NYSE-listed fund for regular investors
The hedge fund billionaire is planning to launch a closed end fund, investing in 12 to 24 large-cap, investment grade, “durable growth” companies in North America, according to a regulatory filing. There will be no minimum investment. Unlike traditional hedge funds that typically charge a 2% management fee on the total assets under management plus a performance fee of 20% of the fund’s profits, Ackman’s new fund doesn’t have a performance fee in place. source : cnbc
Germany's Dax closed at fresh all-time-high just as hedge fund Qube built a $1bn short bet against top German stocks
Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, Rheinmetall, Siemens Energy, Hellofresh, and Morphosys are among those being wagered against. Source: Bloomberg
As stocks hit all-time highs, hedge funds are massively shorting stocks Goldman trading desk: "equity skeptics have piled on short bets
Per our Prime Team, shorts outpaced longs by 2:1 this past week, and 3:1 YTD. " Source: Goldman Sachs, www.zerohedge.com
