When looking at hedge fund performance trends, certain macro institutional strategies previously reported by ValueWalk appear to be at play in the HSBC weekly hedge fund category reporting numbers. For instance, emerging markets are a focal point for investors – in particular the debt markets. Looking at hedge fund category performance might explain this. The hot and often little discussed topic – the increasing ineffectiveness of central bank quantitative dopamine – is on display in Japan, a trend that emerges to degrees in hedge fund sector performance analysis. And then there is “market neutral” hedge fund performance, which is mixed,...