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Goldman: September wasn’t a great month for large hedge funds

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Global hedge funds were down 0.7% in September, according to Goldman Sachs' Hedge Fund Performance and Positioning report for the month. Asset-weighted results were about 60 basis points worse than the simple average, which the firm said suggests large firms underperformed their smaller counterparts. That marks a reversal of the trend observed in July and August.

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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.