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Credit Hedge Funds Booming

Although their returns trail those of bonds, credit hedge funds continue to attract investors.

By Lisa Abramowicz | Updated on November 06, 2014

The bad news for credit hedge funds is they’re lagging behind a broad index of bonds this year. The good news is that investors don’t seem to care.

While relative-value credit hedge funds barely eked out a positive return in the three months through September, they’re on track to receive the most new money since 2007 after amassing $40.57 billion in the first three quarters, Hedge Fund Research Inc. data show. Assets in the funds, which can go short as well as long, have about doubled in the past six years, reaching $756 billion as of September.

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