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Hedge fund industry performance deep dive – Q1 2024

18/04/2024
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In summary…

  • Hedge funds ended Q1 2024 up 4.9%, outperforming bonds, -2.1%, but behind equities, +7.3%
  • Quant was the strongest performing master strategy in Q1, +8.2%, after being the joint weakest (with arbitrage) master strategy in 2023
  • Quant sub-strategies represented four of the top five performing sub-strategies in Q1
  • Arbitrage remains the worst performing strategy, delivering +1.4% in Q1
  • While multi-strategy is the fourth strongest performer in Q1 it remains the top performer over five-years with a CAR of 10.6% and the highest Sharpe ratio of 2.2
  • Industry AUM growth over the quarter was largely driven by P&L; all strategies had negative net flows in Q1 with the exception of quant and arbitrage
  • Alt UCITS continue to underperform hedge funds, with the exception of long biased alt UCITS which delivered 5.3% v 4.7% for long biased hedge funds

HF COMPOSITE* VS INDICES (1 YR)

NET RETURN (QTD)

FUND COUNT – MARCH 24

 

AUM ($BN) – MARCH 24

 

10th – 90th PERCENTILE 12M ROLLING PERFORMANCE SPREAD

NET RETURN (1 YR)

MASTER STRATEGY MULTIPLE PERIOD – HIERARCHICAL ANNUALISED NET RETURN TO MARCH 2024

*HF Composite = Aurum Hedge Fund Data Engine Asset Weighted Composite Index.
**Bonds = Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond USD Index.
***Equities = S&P Global BMI.

All figures and charts use asset weighted net returns unless otherwise stated. All Hedge Fund data is sourced from Aurum Hedge Fund Data Engine. Data included in this report is dated as at 16th April 2024.

The Hedge Fund Data Engine is a proprietary database maintained by Aurum Research Limited (“ARL”).  For information on index methodology, weighting and composition please refer to https://www.aurum.com/aurum-strategy-engine/. For definitions on how the Strategies and Sub-Strategies are defined please refer to https://www.aurum.com/hedge-fund-strategy-definitions/

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