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Hedge fund investors back equity long-short for 2016 - survey

Published 2016-02-23, 04:00 a/m
© Reuters. Hedge fund investors back equity long-short for 2016 - survey
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LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Equity funds that can profit from
both rising and falling markets and rivals betting on
macroeconomic trends are expected to outperform in 2016, a
Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn) survey of investors managing $2.1 trillion in
assets showed.
When asked to name their three top strategy picks for the
year, 40 percent of 504 global hedge fund investors surveyed
backed the so-called fundamental equity long-short strategy to
lead the performance charts.
In second place, with votes from 35 percent of investors,
was the discretionary macro strategy, which involves bets on
markets including rates, currencies and commodities, the survey
released on Tuesday showed.
On the flip-side, 27 percent of investors surveyed expected
distressed credit to be among their three worst-performing
strategies come year-end, followed by activist investing, which
25 percent felt would underperform the most.
On a regional basis, 57 percent of investors felt western
Europe would be in their three best-performing regions, followed
by the United States/Canada, which received the backing of 55
percent of investors, and Japan with 31 percent.
Latin America, with 35 percent of investors, and Russia,
with 30 percent were expected to perform worst during the year.

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