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Opalesque Roundup: Equities and multi-strategy drive hedge funds gain 8.04% YTD in Q2: hedge fund news

Saturday, July 29, 2023

In the week ending June 28th 2023, the new data from asset servicer Citco revealed that hedge funds saw an overall weighted average return of 2.77% in Q2, taking YTD average weighted returns to 8.04%. Hedge funds have now had three consecutive quarters of gains, going back to Q4 2022, Citco data shows. Almost 70% of all funds delivered positive performance in the latest three-month period. Equities and multi-strategy funds were the best performers in the second quarter, with weighted average returns of 4.52% and 2.54% respectively, taking their YTD returns to 10.34% and 10.14%.

In new launches, global private asset growth investor Bridgepoint announced the successful completion of fundraising for its third direct lending fund, Bridgepoint Direct Lending III (BDL III), with more than €3.4 billion ($3.8bn) of investable capital; Global institutional investment management firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management closed its sixth opportunistic/special situations fund at $3 billion, and NB Capital Solutions, a unit of Neuberger Berman that finances companies owned by private equity firms raised about $2.5 billion for NB Credit Opportunities Fund II, around $1 billion more than its initial target.

Meanwhile, Comvest Partners, a private investment firm that provides equity and debt capital to lower middle-market companies, announced that its direct lending platform Comvest Credit Partners has completed the final close of the sixth vintage of its flagship ......................

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