Hedge Funds Strategy Performance

Hedge Funds Strategies Performance This Year

Hedge funds use many different strategies to achieve returns and some hedge funds seem to be shifting strategies to capitalize on the opportunities in the current market. To learn more about these strategies see this article. Also, you can join Hedge Fund Premium for an exclusive video to be added this quarter highlighting each of these strategies and explaining how they are utilized by hedge fund managers. Here is a list of the most popular strategies and how they have performed in the seven months to end-July.

Strategy: Long-Short Equity

• Well-known hedge funds using this strategy: Odey European, Toscafund

• Performance year-to-date: 11.45 percent

• Performance in 2008: -19.76 percent

Strategy: Managed Futures

• Well-known hedge funds using this strategy: Man Group's AHL and Winton Futures Fund

• Performance year-to-date: -7.82 percent

• Performance in 2008: 18.33 percent

Strategy: Global Macro

• Well-known hedge funds using the strategy: George Soros's Quantum fund, Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, Paul Tudor Jones's Tudor Investment Corp.

• Performance year-to-date: 5.24 percent

• Performance in 2008: -4.62 percent

Strategy: Event-Driven

• Well-known hedge funds using this strategy: TCI or Atticus

• Performance year-to-date: 9.11 percent

• Performance in 2009: -17.74 percent

Strategy: Fixed Income Arbitrage

• Performance year-to-date: 15.9 percent

• Performance in 2009: -28.82 percent

Strategy: Convertible Arbitrage

• Performance year-to-date: 31.14 percent

• Performance in 2009: -31.59 percent

Strategy: Emerging Markets

• Performance year-to-date: 17.54 percent

• Performance in 2009: -30.41 percent

Strategy: Dedicated Short Bias

• Performance year-to-date: -17.28 percent

• Performance in 2009: 14.87 percent

Strategy: Funds of hedge funds

• Performance year-to-date: 6.95 percent

• Performance in 2008: -21.37

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