Types of investment strategies followed by crypto hedge funds worldwide 2022-2023
From 2022 to 2023, shifts in investment strategies occurred for many of the crypto hedge fund respondents. In 2022, over half of the survey respondents stated using either a quantitative long/short crypto strategy or a market-neutral strategy. A market-neutral strategy aims to avoid significant market losses, often by hedging long and short positions against each other, however by 2023, the level of hedge funds implementing a market-neutral strategy fell by 10 percent. Discretionary long only crypto was the second most popular strategy in 2023, with 19 percent of respondents stating they had followed this investment method.