eVestment's Most Searched Hedge Funds In Q1: Canyon Capital, AQR And Whitebox Take Top Honours
Our final post in this week's eVestment investor searches from Q1 2018 has us take a look at the quarter as a whole. Bragging rights to the following hedge funds:
1. Canyon Capital Advisors: Canyon Value Realization Master Fund: Event Driven - Multi-Strategy
2. AQR Capital Management: Style Premia Fund: Multi-Strategy Multi-Markets
=3. Whitebox Advisors: Whitebox Multi-Strategy Partners: Fundamental - Long/Short Multi-Markets
=3. Wellington Management Company: Commodities: Macro - Discretionary
5. GSA Capital Partners: GSA Trend Master Fund Limited: Managed Futures - Quantitative
6. AQR Capital Management: Managed Futures: Macro - Quantitative
7. Renaissance Technologies: Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund: Multi-Strategy Equity
=8. Leadenhall Capital Partners: Leadenhall Diversified Insurance Linked Investments Fund: Fundamental - Long/Short Credit
=8. Pharo Management (UK): Pharo Gaia Fund: Fundamental - Long/Short Multi-Markets
=8. J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc: JPM Systematic Alpha High Volatility: Multi-Strategy Multi-Markets
=8. AQR Capital Management LLC: DELTA Strategy: Multi-Strategy Multi-Markets
And the top ten strategies for Q1 viewed by the institutional investors and consultant community in Q1 were:
1 Fundamental - Long/Short Multi-Markets
2 Multi-Strategy Multi-Markets
3 Fund of Funds - Event Driven
4 Event Driven - Multi-Strategy
5 Relative Value - Credit Relative Value
6 Multi-Strategy Broad Capital Structure
7 Event Driven - Distressed
8 Macro - Multi-Strategy
9 Origination & Financing
10 Macro - Discretionary
And that's a wrap for this! We'll be continuing the series throughout 2018. Stay tuned!