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Hedge Fund Managers Ended June 2020 Up 1.75%

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Hedge funds recorded strong performance in the second quarter driven by the global equity market recovery

Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Equal-weighted and asset-weighted hedge fund performance

Eurekahedge July 2020

Hedge fund managers ended June 2020 up 1.75% on an equal-weighted basis, and 0.82% on an asset-weighted basis, driven by the resumption of the economic activity of most countries and recorded strong macroeconomic data which boosted the performance of the global equity market during the month.

Over the month of June, US$6.6 billion of investor outflows counterbalanced by US$2.2 billion of performance-driven gains were recorded by the global hedge fund industry.

Hedge fund performance by region (2020 YTD)

Eurekahedge July 2020

Hedge fund performance by strategy (2020 YTD)

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Annual launches and closures of global hedge funds

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Average management fees of North American and global hedge funds

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Eurekahedge July 2020

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid