3Q 2025 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
Hedge Funds delivered strong positive performance in Q3-25 with Emerging Market and Equity Long/Short strategies benefitting from rallies in Asian equities while Fixed Income strategies were modestly positive, challenged by tighter credit spreads.
2Q 2025 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
2Q 25 Hedge Fund Strategy Performance, Gross of Fees Summary Commentary Hedge Funds delivered moderately positive performance in 2Q25 with Equity Long/Short and Emerging Market strategies benefiting from strong global asset performance while Managed Futures strategies were negative, challenged by choppy market conditions. Hedge Funds maintained relatively conservative positioning through the quarter given the significant […]
Considering The Benefits of Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund Alpha
Published by Bob Elliott July 21, 2025 With nearly $10tln invested in actively managed equity mutual funds and ETFs and another $1.5tln in Equity Long/Short hedge funds it seems nearly most investors, advisors, and allocators are searching for an equity manager that can consistently outperform. As many folks have learned through time, the vast majority […]
Considering The Benefits of Managed Futures Alpha
Allocators often face challenges designing portfolios that can help limit losses in down market environments. Despite the need, there are few investment offerings that perform well when other assets underperform but don’t also suffer from burdensome drag on the portfolio over time.
1Q 2025 Unlimited Funds Hedge Fund Barometer
Hedge Funds eked out modestly positive performance in 1Q25 with the mix of sub-strategy returns largely reversing the moves of the previous quarter. Emerging Market funds outperformed meaningfully as Chinese stocks surged, meanwhile Equity Long/Short and Event Driven delivered weak outcomes.
Considering The Benefits of Global Macro Alpha
The market turmoil to kick off ‘25 has many investors considering adding diversifying strategies to those traditional 60/40 portfolios that have done well in recent years. As we scan the universe of under appreciated diversifying strategies, Global Macro alpha stands out as one of the most compelling complements for many portfolios.
Perspectives on Portfolio Randomness and Asset Allocation
Active allocation strategies struggle to outperform a randomly selected portfolio of funds on a long-term basis. The data indicates that in pursuit of outperformance allocators may even be making riskier decisions.
4Q 2024 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
4Q 24 Hedge Fund Strategy Performance, Gross of Fees Summary Commentary Hedge Fund performance in 4Q24 was modestly positive with many Event Driven and Global Macro managers benefitting from positioning favoring Trump’s election in November while Emerging Market managers saw declines particularly as the hoped-for Chinese stimulus failed to materialize. Heading into ’25, fund managers […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Expectations for the US economy coming into a new year have not been this high in quite some time and Asset markets have fully priced in this exuberance.
Long Time Allocators Remember When Fund Picking Worked, But It Is Possible Those Days Are In The Rearview
Published by Bob Elliott and Nathan Nangia on November 12, 2024 We’ve written several pieces about hedge fund persistence and the potential benefits of hedge fund indexation over the last few years (Elusive Persistence). Our conclusion is random chance is approximately as effective as allocators’ at selecting a hedge fund portfolio. The research supports that […]