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In the week ending January 17th 2020, the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned +2.00% in December, bringing the 2019 return to +11.58%. Funds of hedge funds gained 1.32% in December, generating a 2019 return of +8.34%, the highest annual return since 2013 (+8.82%). The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 1.52% in December, supported by the underlying equity market performance which pushed the MSCI ACWI (Local) 2.57% higher over the same period- The year-to-date (YTD) return went up to 8.58% while Barclay Hedge's index gained 10.70%. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index posted a 31.49% return in 2019.

After a one-month reprieve, the hedge fund industry returned to net outflows in November with $4.7 billion in redemptions, a reversal from October's $1.9 billion in industry inflows, and all hedge fund structures posted strong performance at the end of 2019. The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned +2.00% in December, bringing the 2019 return to +11.58%.

Meanwhile, the Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.66 per cent in December, underperforming the 1.22 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index and the managed futures industry closed the year with a second consecutive profitable month and ......................

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