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What 2014's Top Performing Hedge Funds Look Like

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Mark Melin
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Top performing hedge funds do so with less volatility in 2014, Preqin study shows

The majority of the top performing hedge fund strategies in a recent Preqin survey were located in the North America, but Europe is trailing just behind.

Prequin locatoins Hedge Funds

New York is top location for the top performers

In Preqin’s 2015 Top Performing Funds Report, New York was the top North American headquarters location while Connecticut, sometimes referred to as a hedge fund haven, shared third place with California and Illinois.

Prequin vol Hedge Funds

Overwhelmingly the top performing strategies studied by Preqin were equity strategies, while relative value strategies...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.