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09/06 16:18
Macro Hedge Funds Surge, Besting Some Stock Funds (Update1)
By Katherine Burton
New York, Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Bruce Kovner and Paul Tudor Jones posted some of the best returns among $1 billion-plus hedge funds in 2001, indicating their brand of investing in broad economic trends is making money after several lagging years.
Kovner, who runs Caxton Associates LLC, returned 22 percent through Aug. 31 with his $2.3 billion Caxton Global Investment Ltd. fund, investors said. Jones's $1.9 billion BVI Global Fund Ltd. climbed 13.16 percent through Aug. 22. Both managers seek returns by making leveraged bets on interest rates, currencies, commodities and stocks, a style known as macro investing.
Big macro investors George Soros and Julian Robertson cut their risk or bowed out of the business altogether early last year following losses that had them trailing some large equity funds. Now, macro funds are benefiting from such moves as the dollar's drop against both the yen and the euro in August, while many equity hedge funds have skidded with the slump in stocks.
``The environment is improving for macro funds after coming off a tough couple of years,'' said Ray Nolte, managing director for Deutsche Bank Absolute Return Strategies, which farms out about $4 billion to hedge funds. ``It is one of the sectors we've been looking at.''
Macro funds lost 3.6 percent on average in 1998 and gained just 5.8 percent a year later, according to a CSFB/Tremont hedge fund index. That's a fraction of the gains posted by equity funds as stocks rallied. Performance didn't pick up until the fourth quarter of last year, when macro funds returned 10.2 percent, on average. They've climbed 12.2 percent through July this year, the top-performing hedge fund category, CSFB/Tremont data shows.
A spokesman for Jones's Tudor Investment Corp. declined to comment, as did a Caxton executive.
Smaller Ones, Too
Some smaller macro funds have also done well. Sanford Grossman's $351 million Grossman Global Macro Hedge Fund climbed 22.5 percent through the end of August. Teleos Asset Management, a $546 million Greenwich, Connecticut-based fund run by Daniel Gressel, returned about 8 percent, investors said.
The gains contrast with losses on some of the largest equity funds, whose fat returns in recent years helped make hedge funds so popular. These funds have logged losses this year as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index tumbled 16 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index plunged almost 31 percent.
Martin Zweig, who has been bullish on stocks because of the Federal Reserve's seven rate cuts this year, has seen his Zweig- DiMenna International fund drop 22.4 percent through Aug. 24th.
Lawrence Bowman's $940 million Founders Fund has declined 24.4 percent through the end of July. Bowman, who founded Bowman Capital Management in 1995, shut his technology fund earlier this year because of poor performance. Essex High Technology Fund II Ltd. plummeted about 45 percent, following a drop of 55 percent last year.
Some Stock Gainers
Not all stock funds have lost money this year. Pequot Capital Management Inc., the biggest hedge fund until it splits later this month when manager Dan Benton starts Andor Capital, has gained, even though the fund has been concentrated on technology stocks.
Benton's technology fund returned 18 percent this year through August. Its telecommunications and media fund, which is staying with founder Art Samberg, jumped 24 percent. Its Pequot International Fund has dropped 1 percent and its Healthcare Fund, whose manager, Alex Casdin, just quit, fell 11 percent.
Managers who allocate money to hedge funds say that stock funds are holding a lot of cash.
All equity guys are under-invested. No one has conviction. If you get a big rally at the end of year, they are well positioned to participate,'' said Bruce Ruehl, chief investment strategist at Tremont Advisers Inc.
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