{"id":14439,"date":"2010-03-05T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2010-03-05T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:42:10","slug":"longshort-equity-and-global-macro-hedge-funds-post-positive-returns-in-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/longshort-equity-and-global-macro-hedge-funds-post-positive-returns-in-feb.html","title":{"rendered":"Long\/Short Equity and Global Macro Hedge Funds Post Positive Returns in Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PRNJDisplayImageServlet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PRNJDisplayImageServlet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a>New York &#8211; Based on February performance for the LAB Liquid Indices, Long\/Short Equity and Global Macro hedge funds posted positive February returns, according to Jordan Drachman, Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Drachman noted, &#8220;The LAB Long\/Short Liquid Index was up 1.01% with gains coming primarily from long positions in the industrial and consumer sectors. Despite February gains, Long\/Short Equity funds are down 0.46% year-to-date as a result of increased global equity market volatility. Moreover, the Credit Suisse Global Macro Liquid Index (&#8220;LAB Global Macro Liquid Index&#8221;) finished the month up 1.14% as many managers benefited from long commodity positions in February. The Global Macro sector is estimated to be up 2.33% year-to-date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About Liquid Alternative Beta (&#8220;LAB&#8221;) Indices<\/p>\n<p>LAB (formerly known as Alternative Index Replication or &#8220;AIR&#8221;) is a series of indices that seek to replicate the aggregate return profiles of alternative investment strategies using liquid, tradable instruments. The LAB umbrella currently includes the Long\/Short Liquid Index and the Global Macro Liquid Index which enable investors to gain liquid, transparent insight into the Global Macro and Long\/Short Equity sectors of the Credit Suisse\/Tremont Hedge Fund Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; Based on February performance for the LAB Liquid Indices, Long\/Short Equity and Global Macro hedge funds posted positive February returns, according to Jordan Drachman, Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse. Dr. Drachman noted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14441,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions\/14441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}