New research from Goldman Sachs Asset Management suggests liquid alternatives performed relatively strongly during August’s market gyrations. GSAM tracks the performance of such liquid alternatives through five liquid alternative peer groups, believing that by paring down the universe of liquid alternative funds to those that employ hedge fund-like strategies and categorizing them in a traditional hedge fund framework allows investors to better evaluate performance, and see how “alternative” they really are. According to GSAM, liquid alternatives performed strongly in August. Three of its liquid alternative investments peer groups lost less than 1% over the most volatile stretch of August, as...