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HEDGE FLOW Hedge funds ramp up leverage to near record highs to juice returns
Hedge Funds in general have recently been increasing leverage to boost their returns. But how does that compare to their historical use of leverage?
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Quant strategies powered hedge funds’ rise last month
Quant Funds were some of the strongest performers last month.
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Pivotal Point of View – February 2024
The PivotalPath Composite Index rose 1.1% in January, building on the 2023 return of 7.6%
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Some Hedge Funds Keep Over Half of Their Profits Through Customer Fees
Gross returns generated by many multi-strat funds outperformed many of their peers in 2023 (and likely every year over the past decade). However, net of fees, performance was near the bottom of hedge fund strategy performance.
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Hedge-Fund Short Sellers Revel in Hidden Cash Perk Like 2007
For the first time since before the Great Financial Crisis, many hedge funds are benefiting from higher interest rates, especially long/short equity funds with meaningful short books, and Macro/CTA’s earning higher rates on collateral. With low interest rates, the returns were negligible; in today’s environment, they’re making a difference.
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Pivotal Point of View – January 2024
The PivotalPath Composite Index rose 2.0% in December, bringing the Index to
+7.7% in 2023.
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Hedge Funds Lag Behind the S&P 500. Ken Griffin’s Citadel Is an Exception.
In 2023, some of these multistrategy funds continued to do well, but it was hard to beat the sizzling returns of benchmarks like the S&P 500
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Talent-Hungry Hedge Funds Seen Fueling Pod Shop M&A in 2024
Consolidation is among the top themes investors are watching for in 2024 as the industry’s biggest players look for fast ways to acquire talent, after adding tens of billions of dollars of assets in recent years.
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Hedge funds navigate choppy year to deliver double-digit gains
Many hedge funds were caught off guard by last year's surge in bond yields and the performance of most of them lagged stock market indexes, but a handful achieved double-digit gains, some helped by strong technology shares.
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Tiger Global Bounces Back as Hedge Funds Ride 2023 Market Rally
Last year’s gains for tech-focused stock-pickers were “almost an inverse of performance in 2022,” said Jon Caplis, founder of data provider PivotalPath.
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