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Published in TZ Latest News 25 September, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Why Hedge Funds Remain The Worst Performing Asset Class Of 2016

It’s been a bad year for hedge funds as a result of significantly underperforming the market, coupled with the biggest wave of redemptions since the financial crisis. Unfortunately, according to the latest Goldman data, there is no reprieve in sight. As the following chart from David Kostin shows, both global macro hedge funds and equity long short funds are the worst performing assets YTD on both a total return and risk-adjusted basis.

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