L/S equity should not be ignored, Warns Goldman Sachs By Charles Gubert
Jan 31, 2012 Investors should not write off long/short equity hedge fund strategies, the co-head of cap intro at Goldman Sachs has warned. According to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, equity hedge funds suffered $8.6 billion in net outflows in the fourth quarter of 2011 reducing full year inflows to $2.2 billion. The HFRI Equity hedge Index finished 2011 down 8.25%. “Predicting success is inversely correlated to the hedge funds which …