Hedge fund performance… What is perhaps most obvious about Bloomberg’s list of top performing hedge funds is the lack of long-only performers on the list. But more specifically, the type of strategies that succeeded in a challenging environment for stock investing. Hedge fund performance. – Funds with over $1 billion on performance list heavy in long / short, quantitative strategies With the S&P 500 down a fraction of a percent in 2015, it might come as no surprise that the list of top performing hedge funds included multiple strategy types, with long / short, quantitative and market neutral strategies turning…
Bloomberg Top Hedge Fund Performance List Doesn’t Include Much Long Only Exposure
Mark Melin
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.