These Health Care Funds Had a Rough Quarter

Perceptive, Casdin, and others started the year with losses after posting explosive results in 2020.

Stephen Taub April 9, 2021

Joseph Edelman, CEO of Perceptive Advisors.

(Chris Goodney/Bloomberg)

Several hedge funds in what has been one of the hottest sectors suffered a setback in the first quarter.At least four funds that specialize in life sciences or biopharma stocks posted losses for the three-month period, even as the S&P 500 index rose 6.2 percent,

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