Indices and Reports

Investor redemptions of $20.7 billion in June pulled global hedge fund assets back down below the $3 trillion threshold at the end of first half, according to the latest Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report from industry data provider eVestment. 

Hedge funds continued to gain ground last week, according to the latest data from Lyxor Asset Management’s Weekly Brief, as all strategies save CTAs benefitted from the stabilization of market conditions. 

Worries about job growth, political uncertainty and market volatility are the things keeping investment managers up at night, despite generally rising market sentiment, according to the most recent quarterly survey by Northern Trust Asset Management. 

The pace of hedge fund redemptions lessened in July despite a relatively volatile month for global markets, according to the latest data from SS&C GlobeOp.

Beta portfolio provider Emerging Global Advisors announced the results of its latest Emerging Markets Investor Sentiment Survey, a quarterly poll of asset managers and financial advisors focusing on their sentiment and equity allocations to emerging markets.                

June data from hedge fund industry observer Hennessee Group showed the investment class underperformed broader market measures last month, in contrast to some other industry benchmarks that have reported gains for the period. 

Hedge funds gained from the broad-based return to risk assets in the first half of July, as those that suffered the most in June when markets retreated largely reversed course.

A new research report from Preqin reveals hedge funds posted positive results in the first half of 2016, despite a very rocky start to the year, although the performance was still the lowest first-half return for the industry since the financial crisis dawned in 2008. 

Hedge fund returns slipped in June after three straight months of gains, according to new data from administrator SS&C GlobeOp, while net asset flows tipped negative.

Despite recent records, optimism about stock market performance this year has wilted as investors fret about the global economy, unexpected shocks later this year, and the intensifying pull between stretched share prices and overbought bond markets, a recent Reuters poll of more than 250 analysts, fund managers and brokers worldwide showed.