(Business Insider) Hedge fund investors are battening down the hatches.”Hedge fund positions bear all the imprints of significant risk aversion already,” Societe Generale strategists said Wednesday in a note. “The volatile start of 2016 forced hedge funds to adopt a very cautious stance.”
Hedge funds are long the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, which measures expected stock market volatility. They are also long 30-year US Treasury bonds and the Nikkei.They’re short the Russell 2000, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq.
