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The “Hedge Funds Update” provides an overview of the current trends in the hedge funds industry, highlighting the importance of diversification and active management and digging more profound into hedge fund-specific market observations.
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With the arrival of the pandemic crisis, the FED had cut rates
aggressively close to zero. In addition, it had announced an adaption of
its interest rate policy towards an “average inflation targeting” and that it will keep short term rates low for a multi-year period.
Since late 2020, the long end of the USD OIS swap curve has started to
steepen, but no Fed Funds rate hike is priced in before 2023 as the graph does well demonstrate (doted green line for expectations).
Chart 2) below illustrates the curve steepening in the US rate market (vs. 6 months ago), whereas the EUR curve did not move and is anticipating lower inflation expectations compared to the US economy.
Discover how hedge funds navigated the year. The Alpinum Hedge Fund Insight provides a concise review of the key hedge fund topics of 2026. The report highlights a market environment characterized by elevated dispersion and heightened volatility, creating a particularly attractive backdrop for active hedge fund managers and liquid alternative strategies. Unlike passive beta exposures,
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Discover how hedge funds navigated the year. The Alpinum Hedge Fund Insight provides a concise review of the key hedge fund highlights of 2025. The Focus Topic explores two areas in depth: opportunities within merger arbitrage strategies and the compelling prospects emerging in Asia – both of which, in our view, currently offer significant potential.
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Discover how hedge funds navigated the first part of the year 2025. The Alpinum Hedge Fund Insight contains a brief review of the hedge fund landscape. The focus topic sheds light on profitable environments for hedge funds – it is not only volatility, also dispersion is an important variable. Dispersion in markets is at a
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Discover how hedge funds navigated through the year. The Alpinum Hedge Fund Insight contains a brief review of the hedge fund highlights of the year 2024. The Focus Topic sheds light on Asia. In our opinion, it currently offers considerable opportunities. Finally, we venture an outlook and explain which hedge fund strategies could benefit most
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Discover how hedge funds navigated through volatile markets, capitalizing on a November rebound after three challenging months. It contains a brief review of the 2023 investment year, explains why credit fixed income strategies were “everybody’s darling” this year and how the performance of the “Magnificent Seven” US equities impacted the markets. Finally, we venture an
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Global stock and bond markets closed the first months of the year on a positive note. A real trend reversal could be observed: Last year’s losers, such as growth stocks or high yield, became the current high flyers in 2023. The turnaround in the markets was also reflected in the alternative universe. Find out which
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The year of 2022 was characterised by a turbulent market environment. In our working paper “Investment Insight – Hedge Funds”, we shed light on 2022 from a hedge fund perspective, explaining in- and outflows into the industry, highlighting the importance of diversification and active management and digging deeper into hedge fund specific market observations. Finally,
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Hedge funds delivered a solid positive performance in 2021, covering all sub-strategies. In our working paper “Investment Insight – Hedge Funds”, we shed light on 2021 from a hedge fund perspective, explaining in- and outflows into the industry, highlighting the importance of diversification and active management and digging deeper into hedge fund specific market observations.
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