| According to Preqin, hedge funds have started this year with a bullet. The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark posted a 2.49% return in February, the highest monthly return since January 2013. The performance is timely given that hedge fund performance was a concern in 2014. The challenge, and opportunity, still remains for hedge funds to continue the uptick in Q1 as equity markets look to be buoyant and commodity markets remain turbulent.
According to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Industry Report, new hedge fund launches were down last year (in numerical terms, down 20 on the 1,060 funds launched in 2013). While launches have trended in a narrow range in recent years, they remain well below the peak of 2,073 funds launched in 2005, though nearly double the local trough of 659 launches in 2008. This is now the third consecutive year of decline, while fund liquidations saw their first drop since 2010...............................................Full Article: Source
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