Hedge Funds
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.4px; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, HelveticaNeue, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Our factor-based estimates project that hedge funds added 0.15% last week as U.S. equity gains overcome foreign equity losses</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Hedge funds are now up 1.05% for the month and 1.71% for the year</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">All but five of the 30 hedge fund strategies we track earned positive returns</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Equities posted modest gains, but losses in commodities and foreign bonds limited diversified portfolio performance</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">Most equity sectors and regions worldwide earned positive returns</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px rgb(210, 210, 210); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px !important;">U.S. bonds rebounded from last week&rsquo;s losses, and corporate credit modestly outperformed</li> </ul>