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This Is The Worst Year For Hedge Funds Since The Financial Crisis

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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It's no secret that most hedge funds have had a particularly difficult year, and now that we have 11 months of data, it's become clear that 2018 is the industry's worse year since the global financial crisis. Between investor redemptions and performance-based losses, the hedge fund industry has shed 3.4% of its assets under management so far year to date, according to data from Eurekahedge.

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The publication reports that assets under management by the world's hedge fund industry are down to $2.36 trillion. The 3.4% year-to-date decline in AUM for the first 11 months of the year makes 2018 the worst year for the hedge...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.