Financial Updates – Page 10 – Financial Updates

Why Hedge Funds Missed 2025’s Top Stocks Despite Strong Returns

Many of 2025’s biggest stock winners, includi...

Big hedge funds clustered into a narrow set o...

Smaller and more nimble hedge funds were more...

The pattern highlights the opportunity cost o...

How Hedge Funds Are Reinventing Investment Vehicles to Serve Demand for Access, Liquidity & Lower Fees

Global Markets Banking

Hedge funds are increasingly repackaging stra...

Product innovation includes liquid-alternativ...

Capital continues to concentrate in large mul...

Key risks center on fee compression, regulato...

Neptune Insurance IPO Raises $368M, Valuation Hits $3.1B on Flood Risk Tech

Americas Markets Banking

Neptune Insurance, a Florida-based AI-driven ...

Including the fully exercised over-allotment,...

The stock gained around 12–24% on its first d...

Neptune’s asset-light MGA model, Triton AI un...

Loans vs Bonds in Corporate Finance: Choosing Between Flexibility & Market Power

Global Markets Banking

Corporate funding choice between loans and bo...

Loans offer bespoke flexibility, renegotiatio...

Bonds suit larger, longer-term funding by loc...

Market data show a structural rise in bond fi...

Big Tech Debt Surge Tightens IG Bond Spreads as AI CapEx Blows Past Historic Issuance

Americas Markets Technology

Big Tech companies including Alphabet, Meta, ...

Credit spreads on investment-grade corporate ...

Heavy AI-related borrowing is tying up corpor...

Analysts expect up to $1.5 trillion of AI-lin...

Silver Surges 150% Yet Faces Downside Risks: Supply, Regulation & USD Pressure

Global Markets Consumer

Silver has surged about 156% in 2025 (includi...

He sees potential for a short-term pullback d...

China’s new export licensing for refined silv...

Despite these risks, Campbell argues physical...

Hedge Fund Assets Near $5T in Q3 2025 as Alpha & Transparency Drive Capital Flows

Global Markets Banking

Hedge fund AUM is nearing $5 trillion, powere...

Allocators are rotating toward alpha-focused ...

Capital is concentrating in large managers as...

Investors are rebalancing geographically towa...

December 2025 Stakes Rise: Investors Push More into Real Estate in Alternatives

Americas Markets Real Estate

Institutional allocators deployed about $10.9...

Real estate targets dipped slightly to roughl...

Investor conviction in real estate is improvi...

Institutions are tilting toward core/core-plu...

Why Hedge Funds Are Loading Up on SPY, IVV & QQQ — Tactical Pivot or Structural Shift?

Americas Markets Technology

Top hedge funds are increasingly using broad ...

Bridgewater’s outsized IVV stake, along with ...

QQQ has delivered the strongest year-to-date ...

This growing reliance on tech-heavy passive E...

RFM Raises $800M in First Year as Japan’s Market Reforms Ignite Foreign Capital Surge

Asia Markets Banking

New Japan-focused hedge fund RFM, launched in...

The fund’s rapid scale-up reflects a broader ...

Investors are being drawn by corporate govern...

Key risks include stretched valuations, risin...