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Discover the diverse strategies used by hedge funds across five key markets

Assess the performance of top hedge fund strategies over time

Find out which key markets have the highest investment rate of return (IRR)

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We analysed the investment strategies used by hedge funds in the UAE, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and Australia to determine:

How the top strategies perform over time
Why particular strategies see more favourable results than others
Which strategies had the highest average IRR (a) over 12 months ending 12 April 2022 and (b) over the past three years

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What do hedge fund and portfolio managers need to know about investment strategies?

Strategies for high average IRR over one month

Here are some of the key findings of the report:

Value-oriented equity investment strategies yield the highest returns over a 12-month period – Results sit at 20.32% compared to those for the lowest performing strategies, ie trend-following managed futures/CTA, which are at 12.41%
Of the five markets surveyed, Australia had the highest long-term returns for hedge funds – Average returns for Australia were at 10.24% over three years. Over five years, this figure increases by 9.83%
For the best short-term results, hedge funds should use CTA trend-following arbitrage – Results were at 9.12% over one month, while the lowest performing strategies over one month – equity strategies – returned only 3.22%

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