Incisive Views from Professionals
From Global Asset Management Global themes regained strength in May: global macro and event driven managers led the hedge fund pack May proved a choppy month across asset classes with investor attention focused on issues such as US growth concerns and the Greek solvency question. The US Dollar index was up 2.4%, US […] Read more »
From Hedge Fund Insight staff The latest flow data from Eurekahedge for the hedge fund industry show net outflows from Europe-focused hedge funds. Only two investment strategies could possibly accommodate the scale of monthly redemptions from European funds – fixed income and multi-strategy (Table 1/Figure 2). So it is highly likely that the biggest outflows […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management Global markets were volatile in October with equities, credit and bond yields broadly selling-off in the first half of the month before reversing course and rallying into month-end. This volatility and choppiness proved challenging for many investors, including hedge funds, with most cutting their risk by mid-month and therefore not […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management September proved a challenging month for many investors as equities, bonds and credit sold off. The MSCI World index was down 2.7%, while the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond index lost 2.8%. Global macro hedge funds delivered 1.5%, while the broader hedge fund universe was down 0.8%, as measured by the […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management Markets recovered their July losses, with the MSCI World index up 2.2% in August, while the reach for yield resumed with the Barclays US Aggregate Bond index rallying 1.1% and US high yield credit up 1.6% (IBOXX HY index). Hedge funds overall posted gains in August with the HFRX Global […] Read more »
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From Global Asset Management Asset prices rallied in June across equities, bonds, credit and most commodities. Hedge funds performed positively with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index up 0.9% for the month and each of the four main hedge fund strategies also posting gains, as measured by the respective HFRX strategy indices in US dollar […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Japanese institutional investors have longer experience investing in hedge funds than institutions in other regions of the world. In addition absolute return strategies have had significant allocations from Japanese investors for a long period – the Japanese economy has suffered from low interest rates and bond yields for a […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management Hedge funds positive in May as equities, credit and bonds rally May proved to be a supportive month across most asset classes, with global equities posting broadly positive returns while bond yields tightened and credit rallied. Against this backdrop, hedge funds had a positive month with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management 2014 could see alpha and dispersion rise in importance over beta, says GAM Hedge funds had a strong final quarter of 2013 and ended the year up 6.7%, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index returns in US dollar terms. “The four main hedge fund strategies all performed positively […] Read more »