Macro Funds: “Too Early To Signal Recovery”: Preqin

Although macro strategies funds were the top performing strategies in Q2 2014, a new report from Preqin points out that it’s too early to signal a recovery in the macro strategies sector. In Preqin’s Hedge Fund Spotlight report for August 2014, Bianca Foux notes the net return of 1.04% in May was the first time macro funds gained over 1% in a single month since January 2013. One-third macro funds posted over 5% gain According to the Preqin report, macro funds posted a return of 1.91% in the first half of 2014, leaving them nearly one percentage point higher than the…