After a Strong 2013, Investors are Hungry for Hedge Funds
An increase from 10.1 percent in 2012 and a loss of nearly 2 percent in 2011, according to Preqin, a provider of data and analysis on the alternative assets industry, hedge funds gained 11.1 percent in 2013.
Investors
were largely satisfied with the performance. Eighty-four percent of
investors interviewed for the 2014 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report said
their returns expectations had been met or exceeded in 2013.
Following are some of the report’s key findings:
- 21 percent of investors said returns had exceeded their expectations, the highest level since Preqin started collecting the data in 2008;
- Top-quartile funds accumulated returns of nearly 30 percent;
- Asia/Pacific-focused funds gained 16.7 percent in 2013, followed by North American funds, up 16.6 percent, and European funds, up 13.6 percent;
- Relative value funds made gains of 7.1 percent in 2013, and had the lowest three-year volatility of any hedge fund strategy at 1.6 percent;
- Emerging market funds performed poorly — up 5.9 percent — compared with counterparts that targeted global and developed markets and in contrast to 2012, when they gained 12.6 percent;
