Continued de-risking has favoured CTAs and merger arbitrage, leading to positive results for hedge funds employing those strategies, says hedge fund platform Lyxor. With selling pressure in risky assets halted by mid-February, and players staying out of the market till the latter part of February, CTAs benefited greatly in their long bond positions, and equity and energy shorts earlier in the…
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