Performance spread of top and bottom hedge funds 2017, by style
This statistic presents the performance spread of different hedge funds as well as fund performance in top and bottom-deciles worldwide in 2017. In that year, the top ten percent of long/short equity funds generated a return rate of 21.9 percent, while the bottom ten percent lost 17.1 percent of their investments. This amounts to a 38.9 percentage point spread.
