Most hedge funds continued their recovery in November, with equity and multi-strategy funds leading the way as the overall weighted average return for funds administered by Citco reached a total of 2.9% for the month.
Most hedge funds continued their recovery in November, with equity and multi-strategy funds leading the way as the overall weighted average return for funds administered by Citco reached a total of 2.9% for the month.
Over two-thirds (69%) of the the funds administered by the firm were positive for the the month, a slight increase on the 67% that finished October in the black.
While equities hedge funds have largely struggled throughout the year, they were the top performing strategy in November with a weighted average return of 3.6% and a median return of 2.7%.
Multi-strategy funds took second spot on a weighted-average-return basis with 3.1%. A big divergence based on fund size though, showed that larger multi-strats significantly outperformed their smaller peers with multi-strategy funds remaining flat on a median basis.
Fixed-income arbitrage and global macro funds generated returns on a weighted-average basis of 1.9% and 1.8% respectively. But while fixed-income-arbitrage funds had a much smaller divergence by fund size, with a median return of 1.4%, a median return of -0.1% for macro funds indicates that larger funds significantly outperformed their smaller counterparts.
Only commodities and event-driven funds ended November in negative territory on a weighted-average basis with returns of -2.4% and -0.5%, respectively, with smaller funds following both strategies outperforming their larger peers, as indicated by median returns of 0.2% for both.
