As progress is made on a US-China trade deal, the Preqin AllStrategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned +1.06% in October, building upon a return of +0.40% in September.

According to Preqin, this pushes the 2019 YTD and 12-month returns to +8.50% and +5.65% respectively.

All top-level strategies tracked by Preqin made gains in October.

Equity strategies took