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Chatter surrounding new investment trends is everywhere lately. We took a look at Torck Capital Management, a GARP-oriented portfolio, to see how a more traditional investment strategy is holding up in today's market. https://goo.gl/XUzCCJ

In May, hedge funds outperformed an up market. The previous month, hedge funds were directionally positive when the S&P was down. These are the trends investors need to see from their diversifying portfolios. https://goo.gl/Qwv77D

Among the best shorts in May, Banco Popolare Societa’ Cooperativa was the most crowded, with nine managers shorting over 200 million Euros in aggregate. Download May's report for more insights. https://goo.gl/defphu

The European Short Observer tracks the best, most crowded, and most shorted securities across Europe every month. https://goo.gl/2DGbxu

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Differing approaches to quant strategies affect hedge fund portfolio composition in contrasting ways. We looked at data from a few of Julian Robertson's lineage to see if any have gone "all in" with quant strategies. http://bit.ly/2rrk1E4

In seven out of the eight sectors where the market posted negative returns last month, hedge funds were able to minimize losses and generate alpha. https://goo.gl/zADbZ8

See which names European managers are shorting today in our monthly report. http://bit.ly/2HufibN

Hedge funds will file in a couple weeks to report holdings for Q1. In the meantime, you can review insights from 2017 Q4 in this article. https://goo.gl/zt8XiF

Check out this dashboard to see which stocks, managers, and sectors created alpha last month. https://www.novus.com/industry-report/

In this report, we’ll show you the top 20 names in each Index, their performance to date, new entries and exits in the Indices as of 2017 Q4 filings, and return and risk statistics for each compared to a relevant benchmark. https://goo.gl/4A1zZX