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2014 Hedge Fund Hall Of Fame: The 100 Best-Performing Hedge Funds

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2015 14:40 -0400

2015 is already shaping up like another painful year for the vast majority of hedge funds, most of which enter the year the way they did 2014: short bonds and long the S&P (with lots and lots of leverage, and hoping to get paid 2 and 20 for doing something any regular investor can do with 2 ETFs while paying neither 2 nor 20), which means that the vast majority will again barely return anything in the green column, let alone generate alpha. As Bloomberg reminds us, "hedge funds as a group had a horrendous 2014, with an average return of just 1.6 percent through October among the 2,400 funds that make up the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Hedge Fund Index."

Until October, managers complained that volatility in stocks and bonds made it tough to make money. Then, many got spooked and sold during October’s plunge, missing a quick profit as prices rebounded.

Trading value added indeed: now go buy a Hamptons mansion.

But not everyone was hopelessly clueless: some did quite well. Courtesy of Bloomberg, below is a list of the 100 Top-performing large hedge funds:

Here are the Top 20 most profitable hedge funds:

Most strategies employed by hedge funds were a miserable failure. Here are the best ones:

And finally, the biggest - for now - hedge funds:

Source: Bloomberg

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Mon, 01/05/2015 - 14:42 | 5624641 actionjacksonbrownie

FWIW both gold and the gold miners have broken to the upside from their respective short-term downtrends today.

Mon, 01/05/2015 - 14:47 | 5624650 buzzsaw99

lt's easy to grin
when your ship comes in...
...and you've got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile
is the man who can smile...
...when his shorts are too tight
in the seat! [/judge smails]

Mon, 01/05/2015 - 14:54 | 5624692 Obama LaForge

Didn't the stock market go up 11% this year? And the best the best hedge fund could do was 9%? What does anyone pay you people for? If you're bullish, just get the Vanguard Total Market Index, for Chrissake. It's all rigged, it's all bullshit, it's all potempkin. Just ride the 'diversification' of having everything.

Mon, 01/05/2015 - 15:01 | 5624715 medium giraffe