Bain Capital is liquidating its Absolute Return Capital hedge fund after more than three years of losses, citing a “challenging” environment for macro trading.
The fund, run by Jonathan Goodman and Jeff Woolbert, had about $2.2 billion in assets as of Aug. 1, including $552 million of internal money, according to an investor presentation dated August 2015. The fund was down 13 percent this year through July, which would be its worst year since inception in 2004.
“As you know, the environment for global macro fundamentals-based trading continues to be challenging,” the Boston-based firm told clients in a letter Tuesday. “That factor, combined with the lack of certainty over when a recovery will take hold, led us to conclude that the time was right to return capital to you.”
The fund, which invests in fixed income, equity and commodity markets, lost money in each of the past three calendar years and was down an annualized 8 percent over the past three years through July, a period in which U.S. stocks rose at an 18 percent rate and hedge funds on average returned 6.1 percent a year.
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