(Bloomberg) Managers of active funds have been either incredibly prescient or unusually lucky. Either way, they find themselves heavily concentrated in the strongest part of the U.S. equity market.With more than half of their bets on high flyers like technology and online retailers, hedge funds have near-record exposure to momentum trades, a strategy that’s up 2.2 percent in August even as the S&P 500 heads for its worst month since the election. The resiliency of the bet was on display Tuesday, when Alphabet and Amazon opened nearly 1 percent lower before rebounding along with Apple to deliver the S&P 500’s biggest intraday reversal in 10 months.
Hedge Funds Near-Record Momentum Bets Keep Coming Up Winners
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