Some of 2019’s best performing hedge funds are based out of Singapore.
Chong Chin Eai’s Vanda Global Fund is up over 300% this year. He started his hedge fund in Singapore with $24 million from friends and family but now runs $222 million. Annualized returns are 39%, though volatility is a stomach-churning 72%.
What’s interesting is that you couldn’t get a leaner hedge fund than Vanda.
Hedge fund returns continued their upward momentum in November. The industry posted a monthly gain of 1.12%, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index.
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gained 1.2% in November, as optimism regarding U.S. economic growth outweighed risks and negative sentiment around trade/tariff negotiations and impeachment proceedings, according to data released today by HFR, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis, and research of the global hedge fund industry.
Hedge funds and oil prices aren’t like water and oil. Just two weeks after hedge funds sold off after an oil rally, they’re buying oil contracts once again. Reuters’ John Kemp notes that portfolio managers have been buying a lot of oil recently.
Marshall Wace’s LLP reported profits of £258 million. That’s a pretty nice payday for all of its 17 partners. The firm reported a turnover of £803 million at the end of February 2019. That figure is up sharply from the £ 647 million it had in 2018, according to The Guardian.