benzinga3d ago
Americas hedge fund long large-cap crowdedness led by AMD, Broadcom, and Netflix; short crowdedness led by Occidental PetroleumGlobal hedge funds experienced volatility in January amid geopolitical headlines, policy shifts, and energy market swings, according to Hazeltree, a leading provider of integrated treasury and liquidity management solutions for alternative asset managers.Key takeaways from the newly published January 2026 Hazeltree Crowdedness Report include:The most crowded sectors consistently fell into three sectors across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC:Information Technology – North America (Software & Services) and APAC (Technology Hardware & Equipment)Industrials – EMEA (Capital Goods) and APAC (Capital Goods)Financials – North America (Banks) and EMEA (Banks)In every region, these sectors appear at or near the top of both long and short crowdedness rankings, consistent with December 2025. This could potentially be seen as managers simultaneously expressing conviction and hedging within the same sector.The monthly report provides a look back at hedge fund long and short crowdedness across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, based on Hazeltree's analysis of anonymized data from approximately 16,000 securities on its proprietary securities‐finance platform, representing more than 600 global funds. It includes the ten most crowded regional long and short positions, broken out by large-, mid-, and small-cap categories.Hazeltree defines the crowdedness score as a relative metric that normalizes the number of funds in the Hazeltree's community longing or shorting a given security within a pre-defined group (by region and market cap) compared to its peers. When a fund longs a stock, it generally ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
