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Hedge

An investment made to reduce the risk of adverse price movements in an asset, typically involving derivative contracts like options and futures.

Hedge News

Industry
Hazeltree: Global hedge funds experienced volatility in January

The monthly report provides a look back at hedge fund long and short crowdedness across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, based on Hazeltree鈥檚 analysis of anonymised data from approximately 16,000 securities

Technology
Tradeweb launches multi-asset package trading

The firm鈥檚 multi-asset package functionality for USD-denominated swaps enables institutional clients on their swap execution facility to streamline the simultaneous execution of interest rate swaps

Industry
Hazeltree: hedge fund crowdedness in 2025 diverged sharply by region

Across all regions, consumer discretionary became a 鈥済lobal battlefield鈥� for hedge funds, with crowdedness divergence reflective of where goods are sold and made, according to the firm

Industry
Marex joins PASLA

The firm provides essential liquidity, market access, and infrastructure services to clients in the global financial and commodity markets

Industry
ADX becomes first Middle Eastern exchange to list securities in the US

This is the first time ETFs registered in the US are being cross-listed in the region, giving investors access to China鈥檚 digital economy and the global carbon credit market through two flagship ETFs from KraneShares

Regulation
SIFMA publishes Treasury clearing framework

The report, titled 鈥楿S Treasury and Repo Clearing Done-Away Model Design Considerations鈥� builds upon the 鈥楿S Treasury Central Clearing Industry Considerations Report鈥� published in November 2024

Industry
Trading Technologies International acquires OpenGamma

TT will leverage OpenGamma鈥檚 strong client relationships to accelerate its opportunities in the hedge fund and energy sectors, while TT鈥檚 network will provide OpenGamma with access to a larger pool of sell side bank clients

Industry
Hazeltree: Short sellers continue to concentrate on consumer names

Palo Alto Networks, Alstom, and Oriental Land topped the most crowded large-cap securities worldwide in November