With Strong Commodities and Equity Markets, Macro Managers Had a Profitable April

It was a good month for most macro strategies, but Discovery, Bridgewater, and Haidar led the pack.

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

Most macro managers made money in April.

Commodities and equity markets were generally strong last month, even as intermediate and longer-term interest rates fell slightly.

Sure enough HFR’s Macro Index was up 2.7 percent in April; 2.9 percent for the asset-weighted index. HFR’s Macro commodity subindex surged 5.4

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