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Trade Finance Hedge Funds Hold Their Own Despite The Trade War

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The trade war between the U.S. and China has been taking a toll on the market. However, trade finance hedge funds have held up pretty well despite the challenges. The Eurekahedge Trade Finance Hedge Fund Index is up 2.78% for 2019 through the end of June.

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Trade finance hedge funds are trailing fixed income funds as yields have been declining. However, last year trade finance hedge funds gained 4.73%. significantly beating their benchmarks and the overall global hedge fund industry. The Bloomberg Barclays Global-Aggregate TR Index and the Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index were both in the red for 2018, while the Eurekahedge Fixed Income Hedge Fund Index...

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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.