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7 hours ago · Hedge funds have made a winning start to 2025, as managers of all stripes and strategies successfully traversed January’s tariff turbulence and the DeepSeek-driven tech sell-off, according to new Hedge Fund Research data. After generating a near-10% annual return last year, HFR’s main industry ...

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3 days ago · Lexington Partners, a global manager of secondary PE and co-investment funds, promoted Jeffrey Bloom and Cullen Schannep to partner.Bloom is in New York and is focused on origination, evaluation, and execution of continuation vehicle transactions. Additionally, Victor Wu, a New York-based partner, will assume the role of the co-chair of the secondary investment committee alongside Wil Warren ...

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Feb 3, 2025 · Here's a quick snapshot of the top 10 most read (and shared) stories published on Alternatives Watch in January. Our ranking is in ascending order, with the most popular story at the end of this post. Spoiler alert: Hedge funds seemed to be a key topic of interest last month ...

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Jan 2, 2025 · Here's a quick snapshot of the top 10 most read (and shared) stories published on Alternatives Watch in December 2024.

Jan 24, 2025 · Ara Partners, a global PE firm decarbonizing the industrial economy, hired Colin St. Maxens as a senior policy advisor. St. Maxens brings valuable experience working for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over trade and tax matters, and over 10 years of experience advising Republican Senator Mike Crapo from Idaho.

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