Aussie Growth Shorts Were This Fund’s Biggest December Winners As Hedge Fund Tanks 41% In 2018 After Huge 2017

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Last month was the worst December ever for global stock markets. The MSCI World Index tumbled by nearly 8%, and the global pullback continued into the first trading days of the new year. There’s no denying that the vast majority of hedge funds would simply like to forget the final months of 2018 — and much of the year as well.

One such hedge fund was down 9.64% for December, bringing the hedge fund’s full-year returns for 2018 to -41.01%. Of note, the

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.