Pure Alpha with an enviable 15% return on the falling markets

Bridgewater's Pure Alpha Hedge Fund reported nearly 15% profit last year, despite the heated financial markets, which led many of the big investors down because of concerns over the state of the global economy.

Rayleigh's hedge fund, $ 160 billion long hedge fund, failed to improve its performance since the end of the financial crisis: In 2017, Pure Alpha reported only 1.12% return. But it seems that Bridgewater has regained its positive momentum in 2018, in the midst of some turbulent markets.

According to people close to the fund, he reported revenue of 14.6% last year, even when stocks declined at an aggressive and sustained rate, and many other funds reported a poor performance. For Pure, this is the best performance for the past five years.

In his LinkedIn publication, Dalio mentions that he believed that the frequent sequence of short and long-term trends in markets indicates that markets will remain unstable, although the global economy and corporate profits remain at a good level.

"We are now seeing the late phase of the economic cycle, where strong gains and strong economic growth are followed by the depreciation of stocks due to financial tightening - the moment the cracks in the system begin to appear and what few expect to happen , begins to happen ". - Ray Dalio in addition to his post.

Source: Financial Times

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