Additional context on hedge fund performance – which is sometimes more nuanced than it seems at first.
As Jon Caplis shares with Hema Parmar for Bloomberg, returns for stock-picking funds have been mixed in 2024, despite rising values across many sectors and geographies. Managers who have done the best recently for example have concentrated on the large tech stocks.
One explanation of performance has to do with manager exposures to equities since 2022. As an example, our data shows that while the average TMT fund ramped up its exposure to the Nasdaq by 37% between Q4 2023 and Q4 2024— the highest level since May 2022 — that’s still well below exposure levels at the start of that year.
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