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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.

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Hazeltree selects Rohatgi

Rowan Shri Rohatgi joins the company following a six-year term with Goldman Sachs, where he spent his career in Prime Services across Singapore and London

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Hazeltree: Managers demonstrate more confidence in May

The monthly report provides a look back at hedge fund long and short crowdedness across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, based on Hazeltree’s analysis of anonymised data

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Summerhayes departs UniCredit

Michael Summerhayes leaves his role as director, where he worked as desk head for securities finance and repo across institutional accounts and banks

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TS Imagine welcomes Baum and DeRosa

Terrance Baum and Anthony DeRosa’s appointments come as TS Imagine continues to expand its global footprint and client base

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Hazeltree: Global markets reached new highs in April

The month of April saw global markets snapping back with a risk-on approach, particularly in the tech and semiconductor sectors, says Tim Smith

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Marex hires Salomon as first Prime Services team member in Israel

Alex Salomon brings more than 25 years’ experience across institutional trading, credit, and investment markets to his new role as head of Prime Services sales

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Cantor Fitzgerald welcomes Kent

Lily Kent has joined the firm’s prime client service team from JPMorgan Chase, where she most recently worked as a client service senior associate

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Appia Financial Services goes live

AFS specialises in supporting small and mid-sized institutional clients with introductory prime brokerage services, securities lending access, and capital placement