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...Hedge funds on average lost 1.5 per cent last month, according to data group HFR, their biggest monthly loss since the onset of the pandemic....
...Managed futures funds are up 7.8 per cent on average this year to the end of August, according to data group HFR....
...HFR’s data indicates that the assets under management of multi-strategy hedge funds have comfortably vaulted above stagnating FoFs in recent years....
...Equity hedge funds on average are down 11.3 per cent this year to the end of October, while hedge funds on average are down 4.5 per cent, according to data group HFR....
...Assets across its hedge fund and private equity businesses reached $90bn....
...The average equity-focused hedge fund is up 3 per cent in the 10 months to October, according to HFR, a data provider....
...The hedge fund industry has grown from $1.9tn to $3.6tn over that period, according to HFR, and performance has often been lacklustre....
...Macro funds are up 5.4 per cent this year on average, to the end of October, according to data group HFR....
...Macro hedge funds as a whole made an average of 4 per cent in August, according to data group HFR....
...Its 2020 performance compares with a 6.7 per cent increase for the first 11 months of the year in the fund-of-funds composite index compiled by HFR....
...The hires reflect a significant pick-up in opportunities for macro hedge funds, which have chalked up their best half-year of returns since 2013, at 5.01 per cent, according to data from HFR....
...Despite high fees of between 2 and 2.5 per cent of assets annually, plus more than 20 per cent of performance gains, Element has more than trebled its assets under management since 2015....
...Their double-digit gains stand well above the average 1 per cent posted by funds this year to July 1, according to data group HFR. The S&P 500 was down 4 per cent in the first half of the year....
...His fund has returned 3.7 per cent for the year to July 31, outpacing the average macro hedge fund, which returned 2.9 per cent in the same period, according to data group HFR....
...HFR’s index of hedge funds across all strategies was up around 0.8 per cent to the end of June....
...Europe’s Brevan Howard Asset Management’s assets have slumped from $40bn to single-digit billions after a run of poor returns and investor withdrawals....
...hedge fund industry last year produced its best returns since 2013 with funds across all strategies producing returns of 8.5 per cent in 2017, better than the 5.4 per cent recorded in 2016 according to HFR...
...There was a $9.1bn net outflow last year, according to figures from HFR, the hedge fund data provider. “Fund of funds in general is going through a lot of changes,” says Mr Ghali....
...Many stumbled as they were whipsawed by fierce economic and financial cross-currents, with the average hedge fund losing 6.7 per cent in the year to the end of November, according to HFR’s Global Hedge Fund...
...The losses cap a bruising period for hedge funds, which on average were down 4.9 per cent this year to the end of November, according to the data group HFR....
...Funds with assets below that had redemptions of nearly $2bn....
...Assets invested through fund of funds has declined from a high of $798.6bn in 2007 to $631.5bn in the second quarter of this year, according to HFR....
...Lansdowne, which manages $18bn of assets, posted a profit of £366m in the year to March....
...Asset allocations vary but include exposure to speculative-grade leveraged loans, private equity and short positions....
...In contrast, HFRs pursue what S&P described as “meaningfully riskier” investment strategies. Their assets are managed by their affiliated hedge funds....
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