Hedge funds' 2025 report card: How Citadel, Point72, and Millennium stack up against smaller rivals

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Hedge funds managed strong returns in 2025 despite uneven markets and geopolitical stress.

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Commodities trades stung hedge funds this year. It's not stopping firms from piling in.

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Investors trading commodities, such as oil, have been in high demand.

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Citadel's stockpickers have a new AI sidekick, but the firm warns against 'offloading human judgment'

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Ken Griffin's Citadel is one of many hedge funds with an internal AI chat tool.

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Here's how big-name hedge funds are using and investing in AI

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Artificial intelligence helps hedge funds find value in noisy data.

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Top hedge funds notched gains in October. Here's how Millennium, Citadel, Point72, and others stack up

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Israel Englander, Chairman and CEO, Millennium Partners

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Inside the string of recruiting executive departures at Ken Griffin's $69 billion Citadel

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Big hedge funds' smaller strategies are outperforming their flagships so far in 2025

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Hedge funds have battled uneven markets this year.

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Hedge fund September returns: Here's how Citadel, Millennium, and Balyasny have performed so far this year

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Ken Griffin says it's 'anti-American' if Trump gives 'favor' over tariffs to some companies and not others

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"It should literally be if you graduate from one of America's great universities, great graduate schools, you just get a visa stamp to your degree," Ken Griffin said of foreign students in the US.

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From Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg, these are the high-profile billionaires throwing their support behind schools

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