BarclayHedge Blog: TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers

Friday, April 5, 2013

TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers - March 2013 Survey

The topical study from the April 2013 issue of The Hedge Fund Flow Report. Gain insight into industry trends and hedge fund asset flows before you make your next important decision.

Hedge Fund managers’ optimism about the S&P 500 Index’s prospects was little changed in the past month, judging from responses to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge March Hedge Fund Sentiment Survey, which found that 37.9% of the managers were bullish for April compared to 29.1% who were bearish. Managers’ bullish sentiment was up slightly from last month’s reading (37.4%) while bearish sentiment came down close to 5 percentage points after moving up in January and February. Managers have been marginally bullish all three months of 2013, but bullishness is down 10.4 percentage points from January, when it stood at 48.3%.
Hedge fund managers’ bullishness on the US Dollar Index moved up to a four-month high of 47.0% in March from 44.5% in February. Bearishness rose to 10.0% this month from 8.2% last month, the fifth lowest reading since January 2011. . .

Accredited investors can read the entire article for free. From the April 2013 issue of The Hedge Fund Flow Report.

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