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SEC's Peirce to crypto vault operators: "headstands and backflips" won't move you outside the securities laws

SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce has put operators of crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies on notice that their activities may fall squarely within the federal securities laws, in a statement ...
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Largest quarterly asset gain in hedge fund history lifts industry to $5.6tn

Total global hedge fund industry capital surged to a record $5.6 trillion in the second quarter of 2026, rising for the 15th consecutive quarter, according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry ...
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Allocators hold firm: Hedge fund redemptions near all-time low despite market turbulence

Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SS&C Technologies, said the July reading was "among the lowest monthly readings we've recorded." He pointed to a sharp unwind in AI and ...
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Christina Qi: "We reinvented the entire data playbook from scratch"

Christina Qi Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: ...
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Fasanara names ex-Man Group AI lead James Hylands to build out firm-wide AI Lab

Fasanara Capital has appointed James Hylands as Head of Artificial Intelligence, tasked with leading the firm's newly established Fasanara AI Lab. Hylands joins the $6 billion London-based alternative ...
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Asia paradox - Best performing hedge fund region has almost no new funds in the pipeline

Asia-focused hedge funds are having a banner year. The With Intelligence Asia Hedge Fund Index gained 9.73% in the second quarter of 2026 - the best result of any region by nearly three percentage ...
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Opalesque Roundup: Record USD 5.22tn industry capital, all-time low redemptions and the Gulf reshuffle

Industry capital reached a record USD 5.22 trillion, redemption pressure fell to an all-time low, and June delivered the strongest monthly gains of the year. At the same time, the Gulf's ...
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Hedge funds rebound with 4.95% Q2 gain: Asia leads, credit dominates flows

Hedge funds delivered a strong second quarter in 2026, with the With Intelligence Hedge Fund Index gaining 4.95% in Q2 to bring first-half returns to 5.08%, according to the latest With Intelligence ...
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Hedge funds double down on AI infrastructure despite Middle East shock

The first half of 2026 played out as a tale of two stories for global hedge funds: an AI-infrastructure investment cycle that kept broadening and intensifying, and a serious geopolitical shock as the ...
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Bulletin Board: AIMA on BlueCrest, Wafra Inc., Nour on Canadian UHNW, Kaplan and CAIA, CION Investments on advisors, H.I.G. Realty

Hale added that AIMA intervened to help secure greater clarity for taxpayers, advisers, and HMRC, given the rules' broad impact across the membership. Source ...
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Emerging managers secure earlier investor backing by raising their institutional game

Opalesque Industry Update, for New Managers - Emerging hedge fund managers are scaling their businesses faster and attracting investor capital earlier in their lifecycle, according to new research ...
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Redemption pressure at all-time low as hedge funds gain 3.26% in June

Hedge funds delivered strong gains in June while investor capital continued to flow into the industry for a sixth consecutive month, according to the latest data from SS&C Technologies Holdings ...