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Opalesque Roundup: Investors pulled $109.6bn or 3.8% of assets from hedge funds last year: hedge fund news, week 08

Monday, February 24, 2020

In the week ending February 21st 2020, the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator revealed that hedge fund clients continued to pull out their money in December, marking the second-straight month of outflows and the worst full-year outflows since 2009. Globally, outflows totaled $29 billion in December, up from $4.7 billion in November, and bringing the full-year total to $109.6 billion, or 3.8% of assets.

Meanwhile, the new decade started flat for hedge funds, with minimal growth as the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned +0.01% in January 2020 and the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 0.14%, ahead of the underlying equity market as represented by the MSCI ACWI (Local) which lost 0.90% over the same period.

In new launches, Optima Asset Management has just launched the Optima Healthcare and Biotechnology strategy, which will be managed by five portfolio managers, each specialising in a branch of the sector; US-based private equity firm Align Capital Partners (ACP) has ......................

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