Analysts Believe Hundreds Of Hedge Funds Could Be Closing Down As Losses Mount

Analysts anticipate large 'financial wipeout' as major hedge funds close or report losses

• Analysts believe hundreds of hedge funds could be shuttered by the end of 2019
• Closures could be due to uneven returns seen by managers using similar tactics 
• It's thought investors will also be withdrawing money from funds without profits 
• Investors have already taken back $10.1billion from their hedge funds this year
• More than 11,000 hedge funds are said to oversee over $3trillion in assets now

Hedge fund analysts are said to be worried that a large-scale 'financial wipeout' is on the horizon.  

With recent news that several major hedge fund companies have been reporting negative returns, analysts anticipate that hundreds of funds could be eliminated by the end of 2019. 

'Some sectors of the fund industry are crowded and competing with other investment vehicles,' hedge find adviser Nicholas Tsafos of EisnerAmper told the New York Post.  

Funds could also be closed due to the fact that there's been uneven returns between hedge fund managers who are using similar investment strategies, which is likely to result in 'bad managers' getting fired and the money they're overseeing being shifted over to managers who have been seeing better results, noted Don Steinbrugge, managing partner at hedge fund consulting and marketing firm Agecroft Partners.

More than 11,000 hedge funds are said to oversee over $3trillion in assets, but several major players have made headlines recently due to closures or significant losses.  

In the last two months, hedge funds Brenham Capital, Brenner West Capital Partners, Tourbillon Capital Partners LP, Highfields Capital Management and Criterion Capital Management all announced that they were closing down. 

Meanwhile, it was reported in November that several major funds saw up to five per cent losses, among them David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital, which saw a 3.6 per cent loss; Ken Griffin’s Citadel, which had a 3 per cent loss; Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, which lost 5 per cent, and Dmitry Balyasny’s Atlantic Global Fund, which not only took 3.9 per cent in losses, but also eliminated 125 jobs and saw $4billion in asset withdrawals.  

Analysts anticipate things will only get worse, with clients retrieving their money from hedge funds that aren't seeing profits.