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In the week ending April 3rd 2020, multi-strategy hedge funds - those that bet on a broad array of markets using teams of traders, leverage and centralized risk management - have flourished as stocks ended their worst three months since the 2008 financial crisis, said a Reuters report.

Long volatility and tail risk strategies outshined their peers as equities and oil slumped in February; Lyxor maintained an overweight stance on Merger Arbitrage strategies despite volatility increases, and CTAs' positively skewed performance helps reduce tail risk in a diversified hedge fund portfolio

Further in performance news, Valiant Capital Management led by Chris Hansen has gained 36% year-to-date through the end of March, before fees; Connacht Asset Management, the hedge fund firm run by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Sean Gallagher, gained almost 25% in its first two months of operation; Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management gained 11.1% in March after making a $2.5 billion "recovery bet" on the U.S. economy, while BlackRock's oldest hedge fund, its 24-year-old Obsidian fund, was hit hard in March, sources say, falling 20% as of March 20.

Meanwhile, a $3 billion hedge fund overseen by Michael Hintze suffered its worst-ever start to a year after structured-credit wagers soured with the broader market; Macro fund Haidar Jupiter Fund soared an estimated 23 percent in March alone. As a result, it is up about 51 percent for the year to date; Andurand Commodities Fund was up 57.5% in the first three weeks of March, and David E......................

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