New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest monthly hedge fund asset flow report from eVestment was released last week and the results show that investors added to their hedge fund holdings in November. According to the report, total hedge fund assets grew by $11.2 billion during the month with performance accounting for $8 billion of the increase and $3.2 billion being new money. The growth in November brought the total new money added to approximately $69.5 billion for the year and total assets invested in hedge funds up to an estimated $3.094 trillion.

Within the different strategies, the biggest inflows were in equity strategies and specifically multi-strategy funds with an increase of $4.71 billion. The biggest outflows were seen in macro strategy funds which saw $2.63 billion leave the space.
On a year to date basis, multi-strategy funds have seen the greatest inflows with an estimated total of $56.85 billion entering the space while the greatest outflows have come in the event-driven segment with $10.61 billion leaving. Fixed income and credit funds have also seen a fair amount of outflows with an estimated $10.07 billion exiting so far in 2015.

Rick Pendergraft
Research Analyst
HedgeCoVest