3Q 2024 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
Report Highlights 3Q 2024 Hedge Fund Strategy Performance, Gross of Fees Commentary Hedge Fund performance in the third quarter was moderately positive, with Emerging Markets managers delivering 5% returns supported by a rally in Chinese assets at the end of the quarter. Long/Short Equity and Event Driven managers rode through the turmoil during the quarter […]
Indexing Can Outperform Searching For Tail Risk Alpha
As this cycle becomes long in the tooth, many allocators are evaluating whether their portfolios may be underweight managers that perform well during turbulent market environments.
Elusive Persistence
Last year, we wrote a piece evaluating hedge funds’ performance persistence and its implications on allocators’ ability to select managers. Our conclusion was straightforward: individual hedge fund manager outperformance is not persistent relative to the overall Hedge Fund index. Therefore, a randomly selected portfolio of funds would perform as well as an allocators’.
2Q 2024 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
Hedge Fund performance in the second quarter was modestly positive across most hedge fund strategies, with Managed Futures and Global Macro managers notably delivering weak returns as market and economic trends oscillated quickly from March to April to May.
1Q 2024 Unlimited Hedge Fund Barometer
Hedge Fund performance in the first quarter was the best in more than 3 years, driven by an unusual combination of…
The Best Skill or the Most Luck?
One of the hardest things to do in investment management is figure out if outcomes are a function of luck or skill…
Far From Perfect: Inverted Yield Curves Don’t Reliably Predict Recessions or the Direction of the Markets
On October 25, 2022 the yield curve flipped to inverted and has remained so for the nearly 500 days since…
The Outlook 2024: Stronger for Longer
Despite prognostications and market pricing of a near certain recession at the start of 2023, the US economy not only avoided a downturn, it thrived…
Not All-in on US Mega Cap Stocks? That’s Prudent, But Currently Underperforming
US stocks outperformance of pretty much everything returned again in 2023…
Is The U.S. Economy in a Recession?
Published by Bruce McNevin on Nov 27, 2023 With conflicting macroeconomic indicators and diverging expert opinions, we reviewed the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recession indicators to determine if the economy is in a recession. They suggest that the answer is no, not yet. Figure 1 contains our ‘recession barometer’ which compares the most recent monthly […]