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Opalesque Roundup: Around 39.6% of global hedge funds have generated positive returns in May: hedge fund news, week 23

Saturday, June 25, 2022

In the week ending June 24th 2022, Eurekahedge report revealed that hedge fund managers were down -0.56% in May, outperforming the tech-heavy NASDAQ by 1.49% but trailed behind the S&P 500 by 0.57%. Around 39.6% of global hedge funds have generated positive returns in May, while around 40.0% of them have maintained a positive performance throughout the year. On a year-to-date basis, global hedge funds were down -2.66%, outperforming the S&P 500 which returned -13.30% over the same period.

In new launches, the private capital team head at Duke University's $28.6 billion endowment is considering leaving to start his own hedge fund, three sources have confirmed - Mark Corigliano, who has been at DUMAC for over eight years, is marketing a deck to potential limited partners for a long/short energy fund called Stealth Capital; Brookfield Asset Management has raised USD 15 billion for its Brookfield Global Transition Fund (BGTF), the global alternative asset manager's inaugural fund focused on investment opportunities relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, and Accel, the 39-year-old venture firm, just pulled a major power move. It announced, via a simple blog post, that it has just closed a new, global, late-stage fund with $4 billion in capital commitments.

Meanwhile, private equity firm ECP has closed a $1.6 billion continuation fund - the fund provides ECP III and IV investors, as well as the consortium of investment partners, the opportunity to monetize a minority stake in their investment in Calpine Corporation; Swiss alternative investment specialist LGT Capital Partners has he......................

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