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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

The Motley Fool

Blackstone's unique investment business Blackstone manages investments for big money managers, including pension funds and institutional investors, and its $1 trillion in AUM makes it one of the largest asset managers in the world. Here's why this news is a big deal. What sets Blackstone apart from competitors is its investing style.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2024

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Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.

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CalSTRS Leads Big-Money Charge Back To Bonds

Pension Pulse

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Top Fund's Activity in Q1 2024

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Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. and Microsoft Corp.

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MSCI (MSCI) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Operationally, we delivered our highest Q1 recurring sales in analytics in a decade at $14 million, our best-ever Q1 of recurring sales among hedge funds at nearly $11 million, and another quarter of double-digit subscription run rate growth of 11% among asset owners, driven by index and analytics. So, of the 7.6

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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2024

Pension Pulse

Ainslie’s hedge fund Maverick Capital only trimmed its stake in Nvidia by 2.86% in the second quarter of 2024 after having first acquired almost 464,000 shares in the company in the first quarter of 2023. But this week, Bloomberg reports the yen carry trade that blew up markets is attracting hedge funds again.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2023

Pension Pulse

A hedge fund run by Michael Burry — who famously shorted subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis and became a central figure in Michael Lewis’s 2010 book "The Big Short" — added 35,000 shares of Alphabet and 30,000 shares of Amazon. Another hedge fund, AQR, increased its stake in Nvidia by 22%. 31 holdings.