Activist Investing

: In second place, with votes from 35 percent of investors, was the discretionary macro strategy, which involves bets on markets including rates, currencies and commodities, the survey released on Tuesday showed, according to Euro News. On the flip-side, 27 percent of investors surveyed expected distressed credit to be among their three worst-performing strategies come year-end, followed by activist investing, which 25 percent felt would underperform the most. When asked to name their three top strategy picks for the year, 40 percent of 504 global hedge fund investors surveyed backed the so-called fundamental equity long-short strategy to lead the performance charts. On a regional basis, 57 percent of investors felt western Europe would be in their three best-performing regions, followed by the United States/Canada, which received the backing of 55 percent of investors, and Japan with 31 percent. Copyright 2016 Reuters. Latin America, with 35 percent of investors, and Russia, with 30 percent were expected to perform worst during the year. euronews provides breaking news articles from Reuters as a service to its readers, but does not edit the articles it publishes. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.