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Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds experience a notable rebound in May: hedge fund news

Monday, June 09, 2025

In the week ending June 6th 2025, multiple media and research reports revealed that May 2025 marked recovery month for hedge funds, achieving an average global return of approximately 3%. This performance was primarily driven by a recovery in equity markets and strategic positioning amid ongoing market dislocations resulting from April's global trade disruptions. A weaker U.S. dollar also contributed positively to returns.

Multistrategy hedge funds protected their investors from the worst of 2025's stock market volatility in March and April. Now, after equity markets surged in May, the same managers also did not reach the same highs as indexes such as the S&P 500.

Reuters also reported that hedge funds rose in May on a weaker dollar and by exploiting market dislocations following April's global trade shock but faced losses in whipsawed commodities and fixed income markets, according to sources and bank research.

In performance news, Dan Loeb's hedge fund continues to lag the market. Loeb's Third Point Investors posted a 3.4 percent gain in May; Brevan Howard's Alpha Strategies fund, High Ground and Katamaran Capital stayed positive in May on the back of a market recovery; Greenlight Capital suffered a sharp setback in May - the long-short hedge fund headed by David Einhorn lost 5.1 percent last month as the S&P 500 surged by 6.3 percent, and BlueCrest Capital Management, the hedge fund turned family office founded by billionaire ......................

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