Hedge Funds Suffer Largest Quarterly Withdrawals Since 2009

  • Investors yanked a net $33 billion during the first quarter
  • Outflows come as some managers struggled in March market rout

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Investors pulled a net $33 billion from hedge funds in the first quarter, the most in more than a decade.

The total is about 1% of of industry capital, and the largest quarterly outflow since investors yanked about $42 billion in the second quarter of 2009, according to a report Wednesday from Hedge Fund Research Inc. In all of 2019, investors pulled $43.1 billion.