
Hedge funds retrench after getting pummeled during wild March
By Nell Mackenzie, Carolina Mandl and Summer Zhen LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – March’s market turmoil has forced many macro and trend-following hedge funds to cut bait on bad portfolio bets and caused at least one bank that lends to them to scrutinize its clients’ exposure, according to sources and preliminary data reviewed by Reuters….