Macro Funds Basking While Others Wallow — Why?

Hey all, I’m interested in hearing your views as to why macro funds as a class seem to have outperformed so much year-to-date? I would guess that funds employ a strategy that depends on their views of economic and political trends — and macro risks have been paramount this year, but shouldn’t there be a group of macro funds that bet on further stability and low inflation? Conversely, if funds were betting on high volatility across macro risk factors, would these funds have underperformed in the past decade of stable economic trends?

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