Tag: Hedge funds
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A proposed SEC rule could starve hedge funds of cash by making it nearly impossible to raise money from pension funds. From the magazine Risk: Pension funds in the US may be unable to invest in hedge funds if a sweeping package of financial reforms by the markets regulator is…
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Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, was charged yesterday with racketeering and securities fraud. How Hwang hid his positions teaches us a lot about how markets work today. How Total Return Swaps Work Archegos Capital Management controlled a majority of the shares of several large public companies without making…
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Just after announcing plans to re-institute performance fees, failing hedge fund Melvin Capital has backtracked. From the Financial Times: The US-based firm, which lost 53 per cent in January last year after betting against retail investor favourite GameStop, had written to investors only last week with plans to remove a…
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Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. passed 1.3 million in the latest SEC report. In nearly a year of reporting on this, this is one of the highest figures I’ve seen. Fails to deliver hit 1,327,129 on March 23. They settled at 103,223 at the end…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! Citadel Securities LLC paid $2.6 billion in payments for order flow in 2020 and 2021, according to a new report from The Trade, an industry publication. This amounts to over $1 billion a year and dwarfs its nearest competitors: Citadel Securities takes the top spot when…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. has become the 4th most heavily shorted stock in America, according to new data from UBS. Its short interest stands at 20%, per Ortex. Short interest is the percentage of outstanding shares that have been sold short. AMC’s position is particularly striking…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! Citadel made a major loan to a Chinese surveillance company in 2006. This shadowy company, which doesn’t even appear to have a website, has sold surveillance equipment to China’s Communist government. From a new report from Crain’s Chicago Business: …in 2006, Citadel loaned $110 million to…
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The bleeding never seems to stop at Melvin Capital Management LP. Gabe Plotkin’s beleaguered fund lost 21% in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report just out from Bloomberg. Melvin famously lost billions in 2021 with disastrous bets against meme stocks like GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings…
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Update, April 1 2022: Shortly after publishing this post on March 29, I received an e-mail from an analyst at TrailRunner International. The firm handles “media, law, finance, and regulatory affairs,” according to its homepage. The analyst informed me that the article from New York Magazine on which I’m commenting…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! Last October, Citadel LLC’s Surveyor Capital unit suddenly fired several portfolio managers at once. In the preceding five months, half of Surveyor’s portfolio managers had either been fired or resigned. In May, Todd Barker, the head of Surveyor Capital himself, departed after 16 years at the…
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Tremendous 