Top hedge funds 2014

REUTERS/Olivia HarrisLast 12 months ended up being a hardcore one for hedge resources.

A recently available Citi survey found hedge investment profits down for the 12 months about $10 billion dollars – or 30 % – from year prior, and indexes from study companies eVestment and Preqin put hedge fund returns up around 3 percent – just a fraction of the S&P 500's 13.7 per cent return.

But there were needless to say some champions.

Their core methods had been most likely equity techniques.

Of this top 20 performers, 75 % used equity techniques. of top, equity strategy funds had a greater median return (59 per cent) than just about any other type.

Preqin Hedge Fund Analyst

They've almost certainly already been active for longer than 5 years.

57 per cent of top performers was active at the least since 2009.

There is a good chance their manager was situated in united states.

13 % of top performing managers had been situated in nyc, 4 percent in Canada, and 3 in Ca.

They had a tendency to be less high-risk.

They spent greatly in India.

A year ago's No. 1 performer had been Arcstone Capital's Passage to India chance Fund, a long-bias, value-oriented investment that saw a 225 percent net return.