Our Scans · (FS.3.02) Hedge Funds · Weekly Summary

• [New] As Asia's financial markets continue to expand, hedge fund leaders are seizing new opportunities to scale, optimize, and strengthen their operations. HFM APAC Operational Leaders Summit 2025
• [New] Hedge fund manager Pierre Andurand expects the price of copper to almost quadruple to $40,000 a tonne in the next few years as soaring demand causes global stockpiles of the red metal to run low. Financial Times
• Hedge fund allocations by ultra high net worth individuals have fallen to 2% of their investment portfolios from around 12% over the past 16 years, and the asset class is effectively dead as an investment opportunity for the super rich. Hedgeweek
• At least one endowment is shifting away from hedge funds and using an options-based exchange-traded-fund strategy to mitigate risk. Chief Investment Officer
• The deregulatory agenda of the new US Administration and divergent global economic policies and fortunes could provide fertile ground for a range of hedge fund strategies. Withintelligence
• 2048 H 800s cost between 50-100 million USD and the company that owns DeepSeek is a large Chinese hedge fund, with way more than 2048 H 800s. Radical Data Science
• Galaxy Digital, the crypto hedge fund led by former Goldman Sachs partner Mike Novogratz, expects a Bitcoin ETF to bring $79.5 billion in inflows to Bitcoin in its first three years. Security.org
• The hedge fund industry was well positioned for further growth as investors seek to allocate to strategies that provide capital protection and the potential for uncorrelated returns at a time of high uncertainty and risk. Institutional Asset Manager
• 3 iQ launched the world's first Digital Assets Managed Account Platform, a hedge fund investment solution, offering innovative risk-managed investment solutions to gain exposure to digital assets. Yahoo Finance
• If hedge fund selling continues and Treasury demand collapses, interest rates will rise, making debt more expensive for the U.S. government. Buy Gold And Silver
• While the U.K. crisis was rooted in pension funds' leveraged borrowing, in the U.S., concerns are growing that the unwind of a popular hedge-fund strategy could trigger a similarly destabilizing move. Morningstar, Inc.
• Nineblocks, a crypto hedge fund licensed in Dubai, plans to maintain regional operations in the United Arab Emirates due to its more favorable cryptocurrency legislation. Global Finance Magazine
• 61% of institutional investors plan to evolve their hedge fund exposure, while 59% expect to increase allocations to private credit strategies over 2026. Funds Global MENA
• 61% of respondents plan to grow their hedge fund portfolio in 2025 by $30 billion, up 38% from $22 billion in 2024. Hedge Fund Alpha

Last updated: 09 September 2025