Hedgeweek® Global Outlook 2026

Spreading out: Private credit’s next growth wave

Leading Views on the Year's Key Hedge Fund Trends

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A wave of volatility is building. The question is whether you're prepared to surf it. Our annual Global Outlook report, supported by MSCI, brings together perspectives from leading hedge fund managers and allocators to map the opportunities and risks shaping 2026. The collective sentiment sits as constructively optimistic, because volatility is the raw material from which hedge funds extract alpha.

Inside this year's report:

REPORT

• Why managers see valuation risk and stretched positioning as their primary concern, yet aren't retreating?
• The five themes dominating the worry list: valuation risk, private credit opacity, policy uncertainty, market concentration and geopolitical tensions.
• Five compelling opportunities: dispersion-driven stock selection, emerging markets, event-driven strategies, digital assets and the evolution of active management structures.
• Whether the AI trade still has legs or whether creative destruction looms.
• Why long/short equity and merger arbitrage may be better positioned than macro for what comes next.
• How digital assets are transitioning from speculative allocation to sanctioned portfolio component.

Contributors include BlueBay Asset Management, BNP Paribas, Union Bancaire Privée, Candriam, SkyBridge Capital, Versor Investments, Berenberg, Great Point Partners and more.

The big wave is forming. These managers are already paddling out.

WEBINAR

DATE: Wednesday 18th March

TIME: 3pm GMT / 11am EST

Join us in the final weeks of Q1 2026 as we unpack what the year is already revealing:

• Which themes from our Global Outlook are gaining real traction
• Where markets have defied expectations, for better or worse
• The most important lessons from the first quarter
• How, and whether, our outlook evolves as the year unfolds
• The AI hype cycle, rising geopolitical tension, and which hedge fund strategies look poised to extend their Q1 momentum

SPEAKERS

Moderator

Manas Singh

Head of Research

Hedgeweek®

Mark Carver

Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Solutions

MSCI

Peter Shepard

Managing Director and Head of Analytics Research and Development

MSCI

Tom Kehoe

Managing Director, Global Head of Research and Communications

AIMA

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