Magnetar Capital

The hedge fund industry seems to be bidding farewell to the UCITS/1940 Act Registered Fund. We take a look at recent developments and share insights from Michael Oliver Weinberg of Columbia Business School.

Summer started out with a bang as private market players ponied up liberally across a wide variety of asset classes and sectors, including cloud, software, life sciences and the energy transition.

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked about $19.3 billion in private market deals announced in the week ending Dec. 16.

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $16 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Dec. 9. Private equity: $14.7 billion OIF Ventures participated in a $4 million Series A funding round ...

Magnetar Capital is partnering with technology investor White Hat Capital Partners to form a new fund that offers financing solutions to public technology companies with market values of up to $5 billion.

The $13.8 billion hedge fund firm Magnetar Capital is restructuring its leadership following the announcement this week that Founder and CEO Alec Litowitz is transitioning to a senior advisor role, appointing David Snyderman to be the firm’s managing partner. Litowitz ...

The $66 billion Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) allocated over $1 billion in fresh capital across multiple alternative asset classes as Governor JB Pritzker announced plans to appropriate more money than required to Illinois public pensions ...

Stuart Davies, who is well known in hedge fund industry circles for his roles at AllianceBernstein and Ramius Alternative Investments, has joined Magnetar Capital. His new role will be head of business development, systematic investing. Davies officially made the move ...

Farallon Capital Management, Millennium Management, Magnetar and Ziff Capital are among the growing number of hedge funds, private equity firms and mutual fund companies investing in private placement rounds with biotech startups in this week's Alts Watch Healthcare Beat. We ...

For hedge fund investors, diversification feels a bit like a zero-sum game or at the very least a 50/50 shot when it comes to making gains so far in 2020. Database providers showed anemic single-digit gains in July across the ...