Eleven percent.
According to Goldman's Hedge Fund Trend Monitor, put together by Amanda Sneider, that's the number of hedge funds who have outperformed the S&P so far this year.
That's down from 26 percent last year ... and last year was considered rough.
A few other facts about hedge funds from the report:
- 20 percent of hedge funds have absolute losses year to date.
- Hedge fund net long exposure fell to 42 percent in June 2012. That's down from 49 percent in Q1.
- Hedge funds are most exposed to consumer discretionary stocks and information tech.
- The most popular big hedge fund sock is Apple.
- Next is Google.
- Exxon Mobil is the biggest short of the hedge fund community.
This is a chart showing the distribution of hedge fund returns.
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