Hedge funds have been struggling over the last several months as growth and momentum began to weigh on returns. Hedge funds are scrambling to rotate into defensives and away from stocks which have fallen out of favor. Data from Goldman Sachs suggests funds still have quite a bit of adjusting to do. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Concentrated hedge fund positions lag In their November “Hedge Fund Trend Monitor,” analyst Ben Snider and team identified some reasons hedge funds have done so poorly in the second half of the year. One of the trends they noted was the…
Hedge Funds Have Been Concentrated In Losing Stocks
Michelle deBoer-Jones
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.