Reuters – Even hedge-fund managers with portfolio gains are in trouble this year.
Dozens of managers who are outperforming the market and their troubled rivals with gains of as little as a few percent or as much as nearly 100 percent are facing a surge of withdrawals as investors try to exit during the worst bear market since the Great Depression.
Connective Capital, a Palo Alto, California-based hedge fund, treated investors in its short strategy to an eye-popping 85 percent gain this year as its benchmark Nasdaq Index slumped 42 percent. Still, clients asked manager Robert Romero to return roughly 20 percent of their capital.
