The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark generated 1.15% in October, the benchmark’s twelfth consecutive month of positive returns. With year-to-date returns climbing to 9.30% so far, this year, the hedge fund industry remains firmly on track to generate its best performance since 2013.
Asia-Pacific focused funds outperformed all other top-level regional focuses tracked by Preqin during October, recording its best month thus far this year (+2.91%) and solidifying its current position as the best performing top-level regional focus year-to-date (+16.27%). Emerging market focused funds struggled in comparison, generating 0.42% to rank as the poorest performing regional focus.
Funds of Hedge Funds and Funds of CTAs also both performed well during October, generating their strongest performance of the year so far, 1.12% and 7.07% respectively.
UCITS structured hedge funds continued their consistent run in the opening month of the fourth quarter, up +0.88% to marginally outperform alternative mutual structured vehicles, which generated 0.68% for the month.
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