"Difficult month" for hedge funds
08 October 2014 London
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The September and Q3 Hedge Fund Performance report from eVestment has highlighted a variety of trends in hedge fund performance from a busy and tumultuous month.
Hedge funds declined an average of 0.72 percent in September but outpaced the S&P during what report author Peter Laurelli, eVestment’s vice president and head of research, called “a difficult month”.
The industry ended Q3 down 0.46 percent, the industry’s first quarterly decline since Q2 2013, and is up 2.89 percent through the first nine months of 2014.
Managed futures strategies have experienced the industry’s largest redemptions in 2014, but group’s performance in September and Q3 puts them among the best performing strategies in 2014.
The report also showed that losses from credit funds in September were highest since October 2008. Though nowhere near the magnitude of the drawdown, losses indicate elevated exposures to Europe and high-yield credit globally.
Laurelli commented: “Activist funds posted declines in September, however several funds had large gains which offset losses from many others. As a result, aggregate losses were more muted than expected given equity market declines. The group remains the best performing strategy of 2014.”
Event-driven funds took in more assets than any other strategy in 2014. Though the group declined in September and Q3, year-to-date they stayed ahead of long/short equity, multi-strategy and both directional and relative value credit strategies.
Hedge funds declined an average of 0.72 percent in September but outpaced the S&P during what report author Peter Laurelli, eVestment’s vice president and head of research, called “a difficult month”.
The industry ended Q3 down 0.46 percent, the industry’s first quarterly decline since Q2 2013, and is up 2.89 percent through the first nine months of 2014.
Managed futures strategies have experienced the industry’s largest redemptions in 2014, but group’s performance in September and Q3 puts them among the best performing strategies in 2014.
The report also showed that losses from credit funds in September were highest since October 2008. Though nowhere near the magnitude of the drawdown, losses indicate elevated exposures to Europe and high-yield credit globally.
Laurelli commented: “Activist funds posted declines in September, however several funds had large gains which offset losses from many others. As a result, aggregate losses were more muted than expected given equity market declines. The group remains the best performing strategy of 2014.”
Event-driven funds took in more assets than any other strategy in 2014. Though the group declined in September and Q3, year-to-date they stayed ahead of long/short equity, multi-strategy and both directional and relative value credit strategies.
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