{"id":18119,"date":"2010-10-05T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18119"},"modified":"2010-10-05T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T11:14:29","slug":"hedge-funds-posted-their-best-performance-year-to-date-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/hedge-funds-posted-their-best-performance-year-to-date-in-september.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Posted their Best Performance Year-to-Date in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returns for the LAB Liquid Indices suggest that hedge funds produced their best monthly returns year-to-date amid September&#8217;s market rally according to Jordan Drachman, Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Drachman noted, &#8220;The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index (&#8220;CSLAB&#8221;) was up 3.58% last month, making September the best month of performance for hedge funds this year. The greatest positive contributor in September was the Credit Suisse Long\/Short Liquid Index which posted record returns of 5.41%. The LAB Event Driven Liquid Index was up 4.65%, making it the best performing sector year-to-date with gains of 8.89%. The LAB Merger Arbitrage Liquid Index posted gains of 1.96% for the month, helped by the continued activity in the M&#038;A space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returns for the LAB Liquid Indices suggest that hedge funds produced their best monthly returns year-to-date amid September&#8217;s market rally according to Jordan Drachman, Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse. Dr. Drachman noted, &#8220;The Credit Suisse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119","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=18119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18120,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119\/revisions\/18120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}