The Headstart Fund of Funds successfully navigated last year’s volatile markets and recorded a third consecutive year of double-digit positive performance in the process with a 20.67% return.
As recession fears continued to pull equity markets down in December, the hedge fund industry posted its own – if smaller – monthly loss, down -1.68% for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The
Macro hedge fund LHG Capital Management (LHG) has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), consolidating its position as one of the largest pure-play global macro hedge funds in the Asia-Pacific region.
The managed futures industry cut its monthly loss to -0.13% in December, following a -1.33% loss a month earlier, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge. CTAs were in positive territory for the year, however, posting a 7.33% return
Trian Fund Management, the activist hedge fund investment firm currently pushing for changes plus a seat on the board at Walt Disney Co, lost 10.6% last year as many hedge funds incurred losses on the back of market volatility, according
Crypto currency trading hedge funds tracked by index provider BarclayHedge ended 2022 down almost 50%, according to a report by Reuters, with the fallout from the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX still impacting the industry. The report cites
Larger hedge funds outperformed their smaller peers last year for the first time since 2018, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. As evidence, the report cites the performance of the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, which gives
China’s sudden easing of its strict Zero Covid restrictions and the stock market rally that followed, helped prevent Asia hedge funds from chalking up their first year of double-digit losses since the global financial crisis of 2008, according to a
Hedge funds raced to cover their Treasury short positions ahead of the release of inflation data for December as speculation mounted about a looming recession and a slow down in rate hikes, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Activist investor Chris Hohn’s TCI Fund made its first loss in 13 years in 2022 with the fund ending the year 18% down as Stockmarket prices tumbled during a widespread sell-off in growth stocks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
