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Brevan Howard Said to Hire HSBC’s Global Co-Head of Flow Credit (Bloomberg)
Brevan Howard Asset Management is hiring Mitesh Gupta, HSBC Holdings Plc’s global co-head of flow credit, according to a person familiar with the matter. Gupta is set to depart HSBC this month, leaving co-head James Deighton in sole charge of flow credit at the lender. Gupta has been at the bank for the last 12 years having previously led its global emerging markets credit team.

Activist Land & Buildings to Seek Seat on American Campus Communities Board (Reuters)
BOSTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Activist investment firm Land & Buildings Investment Management is seeking a seat on the board of American Campus Communities (ACC.N) (ACC), according to people familiar with the matter, and believes the company needs to aggressively sell assets and buy back stock.

Huge Year for Tiger Global Alum (Institutional Investor)
SRS Investment Management is one of the top performing hedge funds in 2021. A little-known Tiger Grandcub who previously worked at Tiger Global Management is running one of the top performing hedge funds this year.And the firm can mostly thank one stock for its gains. SRS Investment Management is up 45 percent for the year after surging 11 percent in November, a month in…

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City Investment Giants Slam ‘Value Destructive’ Hedge Fund Elliott (The Times)
Top investors in energy behemoth SSE have lined up to attack Elliott, the powerful US hedge fund campaigning to force a break-up of the FTSE 100 firm. In what some will see as a turning of the City mood against the aggressive activist, they claimed it was pursuing quick returns at the expense of longer-term gains and accused it of “back of a fag packet” calculations.

Bill Ackman Slams US Government for Understating ‘Raging’ Inflation (NYPost.com)
Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman slammed the US government for lowballing inflation, noting that its estimates have drastically understated the surging costs of housing nationwide. “Housing inflation is unlikely to abate based on supply and demand trends,” Ackman posted in a Friday evening tweetstorm. “The inflation that households are actually experiencing is raging and well in excess of reported gov’t statistics.”

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