Hedge Weekly Shows Rise Of Nimble Hedge Funds, Fall Of Brand Names

The top and bottom 20 hedge fund performers in HSBC’s Hedge Weekly performance report shows a great inequality, almost historic in fact. But unlike societal income inequality, hedge fund inequality has some of the wealthiest and largest hedge funds swimming in the dirty, common end of the lake, populating the bottom 20 performers, while the newer, more nimble young turks sit atop the top performers perch as certain macro, long / short and value-based hedge funds are finding difficulty. New age Perceptive Life Sciences sits atop leader board as older funds founded when “perspective life sciences” would be a little discussed…