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Years of an unrelenting bull market and passive investing dominance has brought hard times for long-short equity hedge funds, which have seen their fees squeezed and assets flee. Now, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, hedge-fund allocators and consultants say that there's renewed interested in this flavor of hedge fund, especially after quants struggled to keep up with the market turbulence in March....

Launching a hedge fund has gotten tougher every year, but the coronavirus pandemic has significantly slowed down many fundraising conversations, industry observers say. New managers with name recognitions or institutional backing are also fighting in the battle for assets with firms like Baupost and D.E. Shaw, both of which re-opened funds to new capital, as well as hedge-fund-like strategies, like liquid alternatives, which come...

Massar Capital, a $233 million hedge fund founded by Marwan Younes, finished Monday up more than 14% for the year. Massar makes global commodities and macro bets, according to its website. Younes said the firm has been able to thrive in the chaotic markets caused by the novel coronavirus because of his background: He grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war of the...

Billionaire Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital lost 7% in its flagship fund in January after the fund soared 30% in 2019. The firm, which runs more than $7 billion across multiple funds, has made big bets on healthcare-related companies, like Cigna and HCA Healthcare. The firm joins managers like Carlson Capital and known Tesla shorts like David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital that lost big in January. ...

Coatue, billionaire Philippe Laffont's firm, opened a quant fund last May to outside investors even as many larger quant funds were struggling in an increasingly competitive space. In the hyper-competitive space of quant funds, where the biggest managers like Two Sigma, D.E. Shaw, and Renaissance Technologies are investing more every year into new data streams and artificial intelligence, new players face an uphill battle....