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Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds can't keep up with UCITS sales in Europe: hedge fund news, week 04

Monday, January 30, 2017

In the week ending 27 January, 2017, it was reported that in Europe UCITS are beating hedge funds in net capital raising. A joint AIMA-Preqin study has shown that hedge funds beat stocks and bonds in performance last year on risk-adjusted basis; Marret Enhanced Tactical Fixed Income Fund gained nearly 5% in 2016; Luke Ellis expressed confidence that Man Group's performance is likely to rebound as correlations between markets start to diverge; value fund URI Capital Partners returned 27.66% after all fees and expenses in 2016; Carlson's Black Diamond Energy produced a return of only 1.92% net in 2016 despite help from Carl Icahn and Paul Singer; and hedge funds serviced by Peregrine achieved moderate gains for the final month of 2016.

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