Monthly Archives: October 2026
LS Power Closed Fund VI at About $6 Billion, Well Above Its $4 Billion Target:
HedgeCo.Net — LS Power has closed LS Power Equity Partners VI with total commitments of approximately $6 billion, the New York-based power and energy infrastructure investor announ… Continue reading
Brevan Howard Tapped Ripple Prime for Multi-Asset Prime Brokerage, Clearing and Financing:
HedgeCo.Net — Brevan Howard, the global macro and digital-asset manager overseeing about $35 billion, has expanded its relationship with Ripple, which said on Tuesday that its Ripp… Continue reading
IMF Said Hedge Fund Assets Have More Than Tripled to About $13 Trillion, Urging Closer Monitoring of Leverage:
HedgeCo.Net — The International Monetary Fund said hedge funds have more than tripled in size over the past decade and now play an increasingly central role in trading, liquidity p… Continue reading
CD&R and McKesson Agreed to Acquire Option Care Health for About $5.8 Billion:
HedgeCo.Net — Clayton Dubilier & Rice and McKesson Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to take Option Care Health private for $32.05 per share in cash, a total enterpris… Continue reading
U.S. Crypto ETFs Opened the Week With $117.9 Million of Outflows Across Bitcoin, Ether and Solana Funds:
HedgeCo.Net — U.S. spot crypto exchange-traded funds started the week in the red. Bitcoin, ether and Solana products together lost about $117.9 million of net assets on Monday, Oct… Continue reading
KKR’s K-FITS Met All Redemption Requests After Demand Edged Past Its 5% Cap:
HedgeCo.Net — KKR FS Income Trust Select, the nontraded business development company known as K-FITS, will repurchase all shares tendered in its third-quarter offer even though req… Continue reading
GE HealthCare Agreed to Buy Trilantic-Backed SOFIE Biosciences for $945 Million:
HedgeCo.Net — Growth-focused private equity firm Trilantic North America has agreed to sell SOFIE Biosciences, a U.S. contract manufacturer of PET radiopharmaceuticals, to GE Healt… Continue reading
Spiko Raised a $90 Million Series B Led by NEA to Scale Tokenized Cash Funds:
HedgeCo.Net — Spiko, a London- and Paris-based issuer of tokenized cash funds, has raised a $90 million Series B led by New Enterprise Associates, the company announced on October … Continue reading
Trend-Following Hedge Funds Returned 15.7% Through the Third Quarter, Outpacing the S&P 500:
HedgeCo.Net — Computer-driven trend-following hedge funds have become one of the standout strategies of 2026. Societe Generale’s SG CTA Index, the main benchmark for commodity trad… Continue reading
KKR Agreed to Acquire Fund Administrator Gen II for $5.1 Billion from Hg and General Atlantic:
HedgeCo.Net — KKR has agreed to acquire Gen II Fund Services, one of the largest independent administrators of private capital funds, for a total enterprise value of $5.1 billion, … Continue reading