Hedge funds generated gains in July 2017 of 1.15%, continuing a streak of nine consecutive months of positive returns. This has helped the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark post returns of 5.93% for 2017 YTD and 9.63% for the past 12 months.
Also read:
- Q2/H1 Hedge Fund Letters - Letters, Conferences, Calls, And More
- Baupost Letter Points To Concern Over Risk Parity, Systematic Strategies During Crisis
- AI Hedge Fund Robots Beating Their Human Masters
All top-level strategies produced positive returns for July 2017, with equity strategies in particular continuing a strong year, returning 1.66%, the highest return of any of its counterparts.
Emerging markets-focused funds were the top performers in terms of geographic region, returning 2.63%, helping to bring the 2017 year-to-date cumulative return fi gure to 10.09%. In addition, this has been closely followed by Asia-Pacific-focused funds which have generated 9.38% over this period.
CTAs recovered well in July (+0.99%) having struggled in June losing 0.89%. This improved performance was predominately driven by discretionary CTAs which performed notably well, returning 1.65% over the month of July.
Article by Preqin
