Top Hedge Funds Earn Record $65.4 Billion for Clients in 2021: LCH Data

Top Hedge Funds Earn Record $65.4 Billion for Clients in 2021: LCH Data
Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel, speaks during the Milken Institute's 22nd annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., on April 30, 2019. Mike Blake/Reuters
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BOSTON—The world’s 20 best-performing hedge funds earned $65.4 billion for clients in 2021, setting a new record as stock markets marched higher despite rising prices and coronavirus cases, LCH Investments data show.

As a group, the most successful managers earned more than one third of the $176 billion that all hedge funds made last year, LCH Investments, a fund of funds firm that tracks returns and is part of Edmond de Rothschild group, reported.