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Opalesque Roundup: Small hedge funds produce better returns during times of crisis: hedge fund news, week 38

Monday, September 14, 2015

In the week ending 11 September 2015, Researchers at City University London found that smaller funds hold up better than their much larger counterparts when the world is going haywire.

Edward Eisler is planning to launch a $1bn macro hedge fund early next year; Sequoia Capital is looking to raise $800m for its fifth India-focused fund; Prudential has launched a new range of low-cost risk managed multi-asset funds, the Dynamic Focused Portfolios; Danske Invest has rolled out its emerging and frontier market strategy with the launch of a UCITS compliant fund; Coral Gables Asset has launched a long/short domestic equity investment strategy; and GSAM announced the launch of the Goldman Sachs Absolute Return Multi-Asset Fund.

The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.4% as of Sept. 1, following a 3.3% drawdown in August; The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) fell -1.87% in August (+0.2% YTD); eVestment said t......................

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