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Hedge fund flows: AUM declined for the fourth consecutive month in July, falling $15.6bn

Friday, August 26, 2022
Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge fund industry AUM declined by $15.6bn in July, extending the streak of consecutive monthly AuM decline to four months as investors pulled $18.8bn from the industry despite performance-based gains of $3.1bn, said Eurekahedge Report.

The industry stands at $4.01tn as at July 2022. YTD industry AUM decline increased to $123.7bn in July, driven by $39.8bn of performance-based decline and $83.9bn of net outflows.

Most hedge fund strategies have struggled to attract net inflows in 2022 amid the challenging market environment. Arbitrage/relative value has fared best YTD, with 46% of funds managing to attract net inflows. Whereas only 29% of fixed income and 31% of long/short equity hedge funds attracted net inflows in the same period.

Fixed income hedge funds posted the largest AuM decline of $6.9bn in July, as investors continued pulling funds out of the strategy - despite performance-based gains of $2.4bn. Fixed income ($9.2bn) and long/short equity ($4.8bn) posted the largest outflows in July as global central banks remained committed to further monetary policy tightening until price stability recovers. In terms of YTD outflows, fixed income and long/short equity have posted the steepest outflows of $40.9bn and $29.2bn respectively.

CTA/managed futures funds attracted a net inflow of $1.0bn in July as investors continue to look upon them favourably given their history of providing superior downside protection. CTA/managed futures bucked the negative trend to post YTD inflows of $8.4bn supported by investors' desire to protect their capital from the poor performance of equities and fixed income.

Europe accounted for the lion's share of AuM decline with $12.9bn outflows in July as investor risk aversion grew when the European Central Bank and Bank of England hiked interest rates by 50 bps and 25 bps, respectively. Europe also posted the largest YTD net outflows of $56.0bn - the imminent, deliberate contraction in Russian gas supplies could cause a spike in energy prices and tip the region into recession as winter approaches.

Funds in North America (43%) were most likely to have had inflows YTD as investors favor the region's relative economic stability. The ongoing friction between Europe and Russia, aggressive monetary policy tightening by global central banks and China's ongoing zero Covid policy and property crisis have raised the likelihood of a global recession.

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