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Horseman Global Loses On Currencies And Short Bets In May

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Horseman Global has been betting against the markets this year, but despite that, the fund's managers have been able to pull out a year-to-date win through the end of May. Horseman was down 0.8% for May, the second losing month in a row, but the fund's performance in the first quarter was so strong that two months of losses haven't pulled it into the red for 2018 yet.

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Losses on shorts, currencies more than offset gains on longs, bonds

Although Horseman was down for May, the decline was better than April's decline of 2%. In January, February and March, the fund gained 5.53%, 0.89%, and 0.8%, respectively, resulting in a year-to-date gain...

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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.