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Hedge funds ship double-digit returns in 2024

By Nell Mackenzie and Carolina Mandl

LONDON (Reuters) – A number of the world’s largest hedge funds completed 2024 with comfy double-digit returns, benefiting from chaotic markets, central financial institution coverage adjustments and a good U.S. presidential election race.

Hedge funds, which commerce a number of completely different asset lessons from shares to commodities, navigated risky markets with a point of success.

British hedge fund Marshall Wace, which manages nearly $71 billion, returned double-digit good points in a number of of its funds, a supply near the matter instructed Reuters on Thursday.

Co-founded by British financier Paul Marshall, the agency returned round 14% in its Eureka fund, simply over 22% in its Market Impartial Tops fund and nearly 16% in its Alpha Plus fund within the 12 months to Dec. 27, the supply stated.

Giant U.S. multi-strategy companies additionally posted double-digit good points.

Hedge fund supervisor Bridgewater Associates’ flagship Pure Alpha 18% volatility fund gained simply over 11% in 2024 via Dec. 27, a supply conversant in the matter stated on Thursday.

Different hedge funds managed by Bridgewater additionally posted double-digit returns, with the China Whole (EPA:TTEF) Return USD fund up 35% in the identical interval, the supply added.

The $72.1 billion Millennium Administration returned 15% in 2024 with a 2.5% achieve in December, stated an individual conversant in the outcomes.

Two of D.E. Shaw’s multi-strategy funds posted double-digit returns together with its flagship Composite fund, which gained 18% in 2024 and its extra macro-oriented fund Oculus, which posted a 36% return in the identical interval, its finest ever annual efficiency, stated one other individual near the matter.

D.E. Shaw oversees $65 billion in belongings.

Millennium and D.E. Shaw’s outcomes have been first reported by the FT and Bloomberg, respectively.

Final 12 months’s good points got here as price cuts from the likes of the U.S. Federal Reserve helped push shares greater, whereas a decisive election win for Donald Trump and Financial institution of Japan price hikes have been different catalysts for giant market swings.

Hedge funds in 2023 averaged a 5.7% return within the 12 months via November, in response to hedge fund analysis agency PivotalPath.

TRACKING TRENDS

Quantitative hedge funds, which use algorithms and coding to trace markets, benefited from huge strikes in a number of markets together with equities, currencies, grains and “delicate” commodities reminiscent of cocoa and occasional, which each surged final 12 months.

For the $728 million Dunn Capital Administration, these have been all optimistic drivers for the Dunn WMA buying and selling program, which returned 7.28% for the 12 months regardless of detrimental drivers in energies, metals and European equities, stated a supply with data of the matter.

Hedge fund CFM (Capital Fund Administration), additionally a quantitative funding supervisor, returned 12.01% in its Discus Fund and 14.22% in its Stratus Fund, one other supply with data of the matter instructed Reuters.

British fund Winton noticed a roughly 10% return on funding in its multi-strategy systematic fund. Total, the hedge fund manages round $13 billion.

Transtrend’s Diversified Development Program returned 5.90% for 2024.

Fund identify Share

rise in

2024

Marshall Wace – Eureka 14.32*

Marshall Wace – Market Impartial Tops 22.59*

Marshall Wace – Alpha Plus 15.86*

Winton – Multi-strategy systematic fund 10.3

Bridgewater Associates – Pure Alpha 18% vol 11.2

Bridgewater Associates – China Whole Return 35

D.E. Shaw – Oculus 36.1