As artificial intelligence dominates headlines, blockchain continues to evolve quietly, proving its value far beyond cryptocurrencies. While blockchain's mainstream adoption has been gradual, transformative advancements are rapidly expanding its reach into new industries.

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), hedge funds lost favor among institutional investors due to concerns over high fees, illiquidity, and a lack of transparency. However, today’s evolving economic landscape presents new opportunities for hedge funds to regain relevance as strategic tools for liability-driven investors such as pensions, insurance firms, and trusts. 

Over the past decade, corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans have undergone significant regulatory reforms and dramatic shifts in investment conditions. Once burdened by rising liabilities that offset asset gains, today’s plans benefit from improved funded statuses driven by rising discount rates and strong equity markets.

As the cryptocurrency market matures, Bitcoin continues to dominate as the cornerstone of digital assets. However, its inherent volatility presents challenges and opportunities for investors. 

A growing number of traditional hedge funds are entering the cryptocurrency market, with 47% now having exposure to digital assets, according to the latest Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report by the Alternative Investment Management Association and PwC. This marks a significant increase from 29% in 2023 and 37% in 2022.

While investors are looking after the best investment managers, some also actively manage their investments by withdrawing money from the fund when markets decline and reenter when markets rally. In this report, we simulated different scenarios where investors actively manage their investment and calculated the investment performance accordingly to analyze whether it would bring a better return to investors. Investment in an Active Investment Strategy without Withdrawal To analyze whether investors could benefit from actively managing their investment into one portfolio, we choose one of our portfolios as an example in the analysis. Figure 1 shows the performance and the monthly return of a portfolio that actively managed by Apex Hedgefund.

To analyze whether investors could benefit from actively managing their investment into one portfolio, we choose one of our portfolios as an example in the analysis. Figure 1 shows the performance and the monthly return of a portfolio that actively managed by Apex Hedgefund.