Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management increased its investments in blank-check companies almost six-fold last year as hedge funds poured tens of billions of dollars into Wall Street’s hottest investment product, the Financial Times reports. The New York-based group, which has $47 billion under management, had $4.4 billion invested in SPACs as of December, up from $750 million at the end of 2019, making it the top hedge fund buyer of such vehicles, according to data compiled by SPAC Research. Read more.
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