{"id":10830,"date":"2009-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"may-performance-up-406-credit-suisse-tremont-hedge-fund-index-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/may-performance-up-406-credit-suisse-tremont-hedge-fund-index-confirms.html","title":{"rendered":"May Performance Up 4.06%, Credit Suisse\/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"OLE_LINK21\">West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; <\/a>&ldquo;Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May, capturing the  largest monthly gains since February 2000.&quot; <a name=\"OLE_LINK21\">Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, <\/a>Emerging Markets funds were the  strongest performers, finishing up 6.96%. The Emerging Markets sector has  experienced a significant turnaround over the last three months as risk appetite  seems to be returning to markets, and investors are encouraged by positive signs  of global growth and rising commodities prices.&rdquo; Schupp added, &ldquo;Convertible  Arbitrage managers also performed well during May as funds capitalized on the  overall appreciation in convertible bonds globally. The Convertible Arbitrage  sector has been up every month this year, and redemption pressure seems to have  eased substantially as a result.&rdquo;    <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Credit Suisse\/Tremont Hedge Fund Index (&ldquo;Broad Index&rdquo;) is the  industry&rsquo;s premier asset-weighted hedge fund index. Unlike equal-weighted  indices, the Broad Index does not underweight top performers and overweight  decliners to provide the most accurate representation of the hedge fund  universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Alex Akesson<\/p>\n<p>Edtior for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: alex@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; &ldquo;Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May, capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000.&quot; Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, Emerging Markets funds were the strongest performers, finishing up 6.96%. The Emerging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[1004,13125,1998,6189,2437,956,13124,1140,13126,11708,73,4393,588,13122,13120,13121,13123,4065,258,11098],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-press-releases","tag-accredited-investors","tag-accurate-representation","tag-commodities-prices","tag-convertible-arbitrage","tag-convertible-bonds","tag-credit-suisse","tag-decliners","tag-emerging-markets","tag-global-growth","tag-hedge-funds","tag-hedge-fund-index","tag-hedgeco","tag-palm-beach","tag-positive-signs","tag-redemption-pressure","tag-risk-appetite","tag-schupp","tag-top-performers","tag-tremont-hedge-fund-index","tag-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}