Hedge funds: the comeback kid?

Critical thinking, critical issues

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The level of portfolio protection from high-quality debt instruments that generations of investors have relied with the 60/40 portfolio has been challenged. Investors need more tools in the toolkit. Gold and some currencies can protect well, but are subject to idiosyncratic risks and are noncontractual; their protective capacities are essentially market conventions or rules of thumb.
Given the need to manage a range of exposures dynamically, we ask is there is a role for hedge fund strategies, which may be better equipped at managing through a transitionary period.
In this episode, Deborah Wardle is joined by Dave McMillan and Dr Sushil Wadhwani, Chief Investment Officer at PGIM Wadhwani to discuss some of the key questions surrounding the current hedge fund investing landscape and in doing so, look to answer the question of whether hedge funds are staging a comeback.
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