Opalesque – Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst database reveals that event driven was the only hedge fund strategy to produce positive returns in August (+0.49%), with all other single-manager hedge fund strategies falling back into the negative, with a benchmark return for all single-manager hedge funds of -0.08% in August 2013.
Event driven hedge funds also have the highest year-to-date performance for single-manager hedge funds, with net returns of 9.40%, and have outperformed all other single-manager strategies over the last 12 months and on a three- and five-year annualized basis.
