Hedge fund Elliott Advisors has become the second activist investor to call for Whitbread to split its hotel and coffee shop businesses after emerging as the largest shareholder in the British company.

Activist investor Elliott has disclosed a 460 million pound ($656 million) position in Britain's biggest hotel and coffee-shop operator Whitbread Plc .

Man Group , the world's largest listed hedge fund, reported a 3 percent rise in total assets in the first-quarter after net inflows of $4.8 billion (£3.3 billion) more than offset performance losses.

Speculators are sticking to their bearish bets on the dollar and U.S. Treasuries. But the dollar and yields have barely moved in the last two months, and with stock markets looking so fragile, the risk of a sudden position squeeze and reversal is growing.

The explosion in financial market volatility in February raised the question these episodes always throw up: was it "good" vol or "bad" vol?

Two hedge funds that have criticised Twenty-First Century Fox's takeover of Britain's Sky have said Comcast Corp's rival $31 billion offer for the broadcaster is likely to trigger a higher counter-bid for the company. Comcast on Tuesday offered 12.50 pounds-a-share for the pay-television operator, seeking to disrupt a deal struck in December 2016 by Rupert Murdoch's Fox to acquire the 61 percent of Sky that it does n

British hedge fund company Man Group said on Wednesday funds under management rose 35 percent to $109.1 billion (78.5 billion pounds) in 2017, buoyed by net inflows of client money as well as market and currency gains.

Hedge funds and other speculators are making their biggest ever short-term bet on higher U.S. interest rates, a clear sign that the "vol-mageddon" bout of market turbulence earlier this month has almost completely fizzled out.

The world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates caused a stir last week when it disclosed it had made $22 billion (15.78 billion pounds) worth of bets against European companies, including giants such as Unilever and Siemens

Ten hedge funds betting on a fall in AA shares are set to reap collective paper profits of more than 16 million pounds after its stock dropped by up to 30 percent.