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Two-Thirds Of Hedge Fund Managers Report Positive Performance In May

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Two-Thirds Of Hedge Fund Managers Report Positive Performance In May, Allocators Plan To Increase Investment Amid Healthy Environment

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PivotalPath has released their monthly report, the Pivotal Point Of View, which measures performance among more than 2,000 institutionally-relevant hedge funds, as well as 40+ different hedge fund strategies and $2.3T in total industry assets.

Highlights

  • The PivotalPath Hedge Fund Composite Index added 1.1% in May, bringing the index up to 7.2% YTD. 67% of managers reported positive monthly performance, with over 84% of funds up YTD.
  • TMT and Healthcare were each down 1.6% - continuing a theme that has persisted in 2021.
  • In discussion with our allocator clients, we are seeing this healthy environment for hedge funds lead to interest in increasing their hedge fund portfolios.
  • As further evidence to this positive hedge fund environment, 38 out of the 40 strategies we track have generated positive alpha relative to the S&P 500 over the last year, including all broader strategies on the alpha leaderboard.

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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