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Hedge funds suffer $32 billion of outflows in Q2 -data
Published Oct 05, 2022 04:50AM ET
Updated Oct 05, 2022 07:17AM ET
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By Nell Mackenzie
(Reuters) -Investors pulled $32 billion from hedge funds in the second quarter of 2022, spooked by inflation, geopolitical tensions and the war in Ukraine, according to a report from data provider Preqin.
The outflows were the largest that the $4.1 trillion hedge fund industry had seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the first quarter of 2020.
The declines may continue as central banks continue to raise rates, Preqin said.
In September, central banks in North America and Europe increased interest rates in order to curb inflation. Meanwhile, a surge in U.K. government bond yields hit British pension funds, forcing some to seek emergency funds from the companies for which they manage money. Bond prices fall when yields rise.
Global uncertainty "put significant pressure on markets and forced investors to revisit their allocations," the report said.
Lacklustre second quarter returns have not encouraged investors to stay, either. Returns fell 8.82% in North American-focused hedge funds whereas their European counterparts fared slightly better with 5.78% declines. Funds' returns focused in the Asian Pacific Region fell 4.45%.
Still, most of the outflows were from European-focused hedge funds, which saw $28.4 billion in the second quarter and $49.2 billion in total for the first half of 2022.
Longer term performance trends in Europe also lagged behind peers in the United States and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
In the last five years and including the first half of 2022, funds focused on the U.S. and APAC returned 8.55% and 6.90%, respectively but European focused hedge funds only managed 3.5%, the report said.
Now that market stress has returned, hedge funds are poised to do their best particularly those which use strategies which make use of macro-economic indicators to trade trends in the markets, the report said.
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