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Hedge Funds Resumed Their Rally, With L/S Equities And CTA Funds On The Lead

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Hedge funds resumed their rally, with L/S equities and CTA funds on the lead during the month

Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Equal-weighted and asset-weighted hedge fund performance

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Hedge fund managers ended July 2020 up 2.58% on an equal-weighted basis, and 3.18% on an asset-weighted basis, driven by the strong performance of the global equity market, with US tech-stocks and Chinese equities outperforming their peers.

Over the month of July, US$21.3 billion of investor inflows on top of US$22.1 billion of performance-driven gains were recorded by the global hedge fund industry.

Hedge fund performance by region (2020 YTD)

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Hedge fund performance by strategy (2020 YTD)

hedge funds Rally

Average performance fees of North American and global hedge funds

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Greater China and North American hedge funds AUM growth

hedge funds Rally

hedge funds Rally

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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 covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.