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August 13, 2026
 

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HEDGE FUNDS

Citadel was among several major hedge funds and private equity firms targeted in a cyberattack in recent days.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 6, 2026
Major hedge funds targeted in wave of attempted cyberattacks
Cybersecurity breaches on Wall Street have surged over the past year, as artificial intelligence tools help bad actors launch attacks relatively cheaply and broadly.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has taken an active interest in Â鶹´«Ã½ economic affairs.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2026
Scott Bessent draws on hedge fund instincts to help rescue yen
Most recent Treasury Secretary predecessors came from what is known as the sell-side of finance, but Scott Bessent, with a decades-long hedge fund career, is different.
Hedge funds including Dymon Asia Capital, Polymer Capital Management and Lighthouse Partners are importing the model used in other established hubs to find the next generation of star investors, much like scouts in the NBA or Major League Baseball search for the next LeBron James or Shohei Ohtani.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2026
Hedge funds hire talent scouts in Japan to tap comeback
Identifying the right portfolio manager or pod member has been described as finding a future NBA superstar from a large pool of college basketball players.
Foreign investors have bought ?5.4 trillion ($34.6 billion) of Japanese stocks this year, the largest net inflow since 2013.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 30, 2025
New Japanese hedge fund RFM attracts $800 million in first year
Foreign investors have bought $34.6 billion of Japanese stocks this year, the largest net inflow since 2013.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking¡¯s Asia Pacific arm has completed a synthetic risk transfer deal, which helps the bank free up regulatory capital.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2025
SMBC Asia inks debut $3.2 billion SRT with Blackstone and Stonepeak
The transaction, covering Australian and Asian project finance loans, was finalized between September to October and helps SMBC free up regulatory capital.
Â鶹´«Ã½ two main stock benchmarks have chalked up annualized returns above 6% in the last five years in dollar terms, attracting international investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
Citadel and Point72 alumni to lead new Japan hedge fund
Takeo Serizawa will become chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based Invictus Investment Partners, while Tomohiro Yamaguchi will become CEO.
Emily Badger, a co-manager of the Man Japan CoreAlpha Fund
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2025
Man Group¡¯s Japan fund buying bank stocks in bet on inflation
An investment manager at the world¡¯s largest publicly traded hedge fund is adding Â鶹´«Ã½ financial shares to her portfolio.
Wind turbines beyond an array of solar panels on the hillside in the Canical district of Madeira, Portugal, on Feb. 9, 2023. Renewables are now among the cheapest forms of electricity, especially after an energy crunch and the Ukraine war bolstered gas, oil and coal.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 11, 2025
Hedge funds flip on green energy and start betting against oil
The outlook for solar and wind stocks is starting to improve.
Â鶹´«Ã½ deepening corporate governance reforms and exit from more than a decade of deflation have rekindled global investor interest in the world¡¯s fourth-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 16, 2025
Hedge funds reap cash from investors ¡®starved¡¯ of Japan exposure
Â鶹´«Ã½ deepening corporate governance reforms and exit from more than a decade of deflation have rekindled global investor interest.
Nomura is looking to deepen its foothold in its traditional Wall Street businesses by weighing a return to offering cash prime-brokerage services in the United States and Europe.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025
Nomura weighs return to prime brokerage four years after Archegos
Prime brokerage, which involves banks lending cash and securities to hedge funds, has become an increasing money maker for Wall Street in recent years due to high equities prices.
The yen rose 2.3% against the dollar last week and hit its strongest level since September on Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2025
Hedge funds and asset managers boost bullish yen bets amid tariffs
The yen has been one of the best performers against the dollar this month as investors anticipate that the trade war may hurt global economic growth.
Hedge funds are trying to hire more in Japan, as traders look to power markets in the country with more green energy and uncertainties surrounding nuclear plant restarts.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 9, 2025
Hedge funds eye volatile Asia power markets with new hires
They are pushing into the region with the aim of offsetting declining profits from mainstay commodities.
Billionaire Bill Ackman ¡ª an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump ¡ª has said the new U.S. trade regime is a "mistake.¡±
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 7, 2025
Hedge fund billionaires denounce Trump¡¯s tariffs as rout deepens
The widening criticism came as Trump offered no indication he was prepared to claw back a punishing trade overhaul set to begin on April 9.
Katsunori Tanaka, an ex-Goldman Sachs analyst who now heads hedge fund Ariake Capital, is betting big on Japan's smaller regional banks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 25, 2025
Ex-Goldman analyst¡¯s hedge fund reaps 300% returns on small Japan banks
Katsunori Tanaka spent years at Goldman Sachs scrutinizing Â鶹´«Ã½ biggest banks. Now at Ariake Capital, he obsesses over much smaller regional lenders.
Sydney-based Minotaur Capital outperformed the global stock market in its first six months while slashing research costs by using AI.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 14, 2025
Hedge fund startup that replaced analysts with AI beats the market
Minotaur Capital, which has no analysts on staff, returned 13.7% in the six months ending January versus 6.7% for the MSCI All-Country World Index.
Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani, Ghana, on April 11, 2019.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 25, 2024
How a hedge fund exodus reshaped global cocoa markets?
The impact of hedge funds¡¯ exit illustrates how reliant trading has become on these lightly regulated funds that increasingly shape financial markets.
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Aug. 8
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 15, 2024
Hedge funds race to tailor ChatGPT for time-consuming research chores
Fast-money proponents remain steadfast in their conviction that their investments will reap tangible wins.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 31, 2022
An army of faceless suits is taking over the $4 trillion hedge fund world
Clients are increasingly willing to pay high fees ¡ª outsized even by hedge fund standards ¡ª to gain access to a whole new universe of investments.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 8, 2020
Hedge funds say no turning back on Abe¡¯s Japan reforms
Despite a change in leader later this month, it has been suggested that Japan Inc. will continue down its current path.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2019
Sony explains reasons for rejection of plan to spin off semiconductor business
Sony Corp. has clarified why it rejected a proposal by the U.S. hedge fund Third Point LLC that the electronics and entertainment giant spin off its semiconductor business.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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