The average long - short equity hedge fund produced a 96 % total return — still short of an index fund. (abnormalreturns.com)
This includes well - established equity hedge fund managers in the Australian market and a number of emerging managers, which are both performance driven and capacity constrained. (nwqcm.com)
Using the Google News archive to collect approximately 67,000 news articles from about 3,600 unique media sources on a sample of 774 long / short U.S. equity hedge funds over the period 1999 --- 2008, they find that: (cxoadvisory.com)