Michael Dempsey
President, Investments and Retirement
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With every new year comes hope. For most investors, the hope for this year will simply be that it's a lot better than last year.
In light of the current environment and the strong relative performance of hedge funds recently, we revisit our outlook on the opportunity set across the hedge fund landscape.
Read our latest quarterly market report where we take a look back at Q4 and identify our outlook for the upcoming quarter.
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