05May

With Help From China, Asian Hedge Funds Lead YTD Alpha

With the S&P 500 up 0.42% in April, the hedge fund industry notched a slight outperformance, up on average 0.80% on the month, according to Morgan Stanley prime brokerage data. This puts hedge funds up 3.8% year to date by this measure of performance. Year to date the S&P 500 index is up 6.82%.

Equity Long / Short has particularly robust month
Hedge funds were small net . . .

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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