In a year when hedge funds saw bad performance and a surge in shutdowns, a few firms managed to avoid the carnage. The world's biggest hedge fund, the $160 billion Bridgewater Associates, was one of them.
Bridgewater's flagship fund, Pure Alpha, posted a 14.6% return net of fees in 2018, according to a person familiar with the firm's performance.
That made the fund one of only a few to post big gains in a year when hedge funds on average were down about 6.7%, according to the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn posted his worst year ever, and Dan Loeb's Third Point also struggled.
Bridgewater's founder, Ray Dalio, has said that the economy is at "the seventh inning of the short-term debt cycle" and that the next financial crisis will play out more slowly than the one in 2008.
Speaking with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget in December, he said: "They're tightening monetary policy. Asset prices are fully priced. And we're in the later stages of a long-term debt cycle, because the capacity of the ability of central banks to ease monetary policy is limited."
Source: BI
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