Alan Howard’s hedge-fund outperforms other funds returning investors an impressive 44% return on the investment to date.
The Uk’s wealthiest investor Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms its rivals amid volatility and political uncertainty surrounding Brexit. Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms following a tough period for the macro fund.
Assets at Brevan Howard have fallen from their peak of $40bn in 2013 to around $8bn today.


“Alan Howard’s hedge-fund outperforms other funds returning investors an impressive 44% return on the investment to date”
Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms its rival funds with a 44% return which marks a comeback for the trader since he launched the stand alone fund last year.
Alan Howard manages the fund by himself he does not have a team.
Nevertheless, Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms other funds with a team of staff. Alan Howard’s alpha returns this year bucks his trend of many years of poor performance.
Alan Howard and many other macro traders struggled to make money in an era of massive central bank intervention.
Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms his rivals but the solo billionaire investor fund charges are among the highest. Alan Howard’s macro fund charges investors a 30 percent performance fee on profits.

“Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms other funds with a team of staff. Alan Howard’s alpha returns this year bucks his trend of many years of poor performance”
Alan Howard also charges a fixed 0.75 percent management fee. So Alan Howard’s alpha returns mean that the hedge fund manager is personally going to be banking big profits.
But as explained previously Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms the index is a break from the billionaire hedge funds previous under performance.
“I’m happy that the loyalty and confidence shown by my investors have been rewarded with a very positive result” – Alan Howard
Alan Howard had previously seen the largest vehicles of the Brevan Howard hedge fund he co-founded hemorrage assets, shrinking from being one of the largest hedge funds in the world in 2013 to managing less than $10bn in total.
Nevertheless, the latest result shows that Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms his rivals.
“I’m happy that the loyalty and confidence shown by my investors have been rewarded with a very positive result”, wrote Alan Howard in an email.
“Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms during a climate of heightened volatility”
Volatility in emerging markets and European government debt are the main reason why Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms his rivals.
“Italian politics, Eurozone politics, Brexit, Iran, North Korea – all of these things are stirring the pot up big time and that’s when you’d expect macro trading to do well,” said a person close to the firm. “Alan Howard is doing extremely well, as he did during the financial crisis.”
Indeed, Bridgewater’s Italian job which entails betting against (short selling) Italian firms to the tune of $3 billion has also paid off handsomely.
A person familiar with the fund said that it was planning to open it up to new allocations from existing Brevan Howard investors who had not entered Alan Howard’s AH fund.
So Alan Howard’s hedge fund outperforms during a climate of heightened volatility.