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Hedge Funds Still In These Growth Stocks Gave Up All The Returns They Generated Since 2014

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Many investors have a habit of tracking the stocks their favorite hedge fund managers buy and then effectively copying their portfolio as best they can. However, equity hedge funds have had the worst start to a year ever recorded, with an average 9% decline for the first quarter.

An analysis of what hedge funds are buying shows that many are psychologically unwilling or otherwise unable to give up on high-flying tech stocks. Given the current macro environment, it might finally be time to give up on some of those names temporarily.

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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.