Indices and Reports

There are fewer than half as many new hedge funds in Europe this year than at this time last year, according to a new report.

After last year’s debacle, hedge funds needed to get off to a good start this year. And they have.

Hedge funds matched the returns of the broader markets during a mixed June, according to Greenwich Alternative Investments.

Hedge fund industry assets are on the rise for the first time in a year as redemptions slowed and performance soared.

Buoyed by their best month in a decade, hedge funds enjoyed their best quarter in at least six years, according to Morningstar.

The Lyxor Global Hedge Fund Index is throwing cold water on talk of a strong first half for the hedge fund industry.

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A whopping 90% of respondents think that HFT has a bright future. In comparison, only half believe that the investment management industry has favorable prospects, and only 42% have a positive outlook when it comes to the U.S. economy.

Just a handful of hedge fund strategies managed to make money last month, in one of the gloomier reports on industry performance in June.

It doesn’t get much more mixed than this: Hedge Fund Research’s HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index returned just 0.04% last month, while 27 of the 55 strategy and sub-indices tracked by HFR finished June in the red.

The RBC Hedge 250 Index gained an estimated 0.33% gain last month, bringing its year-to-date return to 10.72%.