hedge funds
Hedge funds are portrayed mainly as influential participants in stressed bond and currency markets, with their positioning potentially amplifying fiscal and intervention pressures 127. Views on hedge-fund performance are mixed: some argue single-manager outperformance has no allocator value beyond chance and accounting effects 6, while others highlight exceptional compensation and skill among successful managers 4. Historical discussion also stresses that hedge funds can survive severe drawdowns, but some strategies have left firms vulnerable 9.
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Where the voices land
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Risk rising sharply
- TKThe Kobeissi LetterRisk rising sharply Hedge funds' leveraged Treasury positions now pose a bigger risk to the Treasury market than China, making it vulnerable to forced selling. “Hedge funds may now be a bigger risk to Treasuries than China” Open the post Hedge funds may now be a bigger risk to Treasuri… · 5 Sept
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Mentions
21 in September 2026Stories it travels in
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Bloomberg 7 mentions
- Max Wiethe 4 mentions
- The Kobeissi Letter 3 mentions
- Freddie Brick 2 mentions
- Michael Pettis 1 mention
- Walter Bloomberg 1 mention
- Brad Setser 1 mention
- Jack Farley 1 mention
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