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Pivotal Point of View – July 2024
Every month, on behalf of over $300B in client hedge fund capital, PivotalPath tracks over 2,800 institutionally-relevant hedge funds, spanning >$3T of industry assets. Our monthly report contextualizes these data points and identifies trends to help gain unique insight into the hedge fund industry. 2024 Hedge Fund Performance Strategy Highlights: Equity Quant’s consistency continues to […]
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Hedge Fund Industry Trends & Building Better Benchmarks Webinar
PivotalPath and guests from Innocap, Aima and Ellington discuss H1's key performance, strategy and allocator trends and the thorny issue of how 'faulty' indices have led to a disconnect between funds and their investors.
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Pivotal Point of View – May 2024
The PivotalPath Composite Index declined 0.2% in April and is up 4.9% YTD. The Index continues to generate positive alpha of 6.3% relative to the S&P 500 (S&P) over the last 12 months, even as equity markets declined in April.
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A Bias-Free Assessment of the Hedge Fund Industry
A New Evaluation of Total Assets, Alphas, and the Flow-Performance Relation.
We combine data from six leading commercial hedge fund vendor databases with confidential regulatory filings to provide a comprehensive evaluation of hedge fund industry size, performance, and investor flows. -
The Inflation Effect on Hedge Funds
Inflation has occupied the minds of the Federal Reserve and U.S. consumers since the term “transitory” admittedly became out of step almost 1.5 years ago as noted in this Reuters report. And rightfully so, as inflation directly affects everything from consumer purchasing power to company profit margins. Additionally, policy responses to persistent inflation, such as […]
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Historic Rally in Treasuries and the Effect on Managed Futures
In addition to monthly stats, in this edition we reflect on performance and discusses the month's events that drove the various underlying sub-index results.
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Banking Turmoil Implications for Hedge Funds
In view of the recent banking turmoil we just wanted to show to our clients how to use PivotalPath tools to quantify banking sector exposure in the hedge fund industry. Using the KBW Index (MTD -24% as of Mar 16,2023) as proxy of the banking sector in our correlation tracker, we can screen for the […]