In summary...
Whilst over the 12 months to August, quant funds saw positive performance, it has remained a challenging environment on a relative basis when benchmarked to the rest of the hedge fund universe as observed by Aurum Hedge Fund Data Engine; only macro funds have performed worse than Quant over the period.
Over the same time period equities have continued their exceptionally strong run of performance while bonds were flat.
Although there are broad themes at the strategy and sub-strategy level, it should be noted that there remains some extremely high levels of performance dispersion between the top and bottom 10% of performing funds within the quant strategy.
