Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Taps Clear Street for Prime Brokerage
Summary:
- Situational Awareness has lined up Clear Street to provide prime-brokerage services, according to people familiar with the setup.
- The move lands just weeks after a sharp slide in the fund's public tech bets triggered escalating collateral calls from banks.
- Clear Street, founded in 2018 by trader Uri Cohen, runs a single in-house technology stack rather than stitching together third-party systems.
What happened
Situational Awareness has brought on Clear Street as a prime broker, people with knowledge of the arrangement said. The Financial Times was first to flag the tie-up. When asked, both firms chose not to provide a comment.
Why the timing matters
This new relationship follows a tumultuous stretch for Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund. Earlier this year, highly leveraged wagers tied to AI put the firm on the brink, and a rapid selloff across its public technology holdings led banks to seek ever more collateral on its trades.
How the firm responded
Amid the turmoil, Aschenbrenner coordinated with his then prime brokers - among them Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. - to reduce exposure. He also struck an agreement with Ken Griffin's Citadel to shed most of the fund's portfolio of publicly traded stocks.
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What this means for your portfolio
The fund has returned to trading options, CNBC reported Friday. If you hold similar tech names, this is one more signal to keep an eye on market liquidity and positioning around AI-linked trades.
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