What do you get for 4 straight months of positive performance and an annualized rate of return of nearly 15%? Nearly run out of town, it turns out, with the hedge funds are underperforming drums getting louder and louder of late as traditional stock and real estate investments soar (50% annualized returns). Case in point, the recent Bloomberg headline bemoaning: "Hedge Funds Keep Failing to Deliver on What They're Selling They neither outperform in bull markets nor offer insurance against bear retreats." Never mind that isn't what they are trying to do, per our research