{"id":20821,"date":"2011-02-24T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20821"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:47:15","slug":"morningstar-january-hedge-fund-performance-and-asset-flows-through-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/morningstar-january-hedge-fund-performance-and-asset-flows-through-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Morningstar: January hedge fund performance and asset flows through 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20822\" title=\"funds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds enjoyed a slightly positive January, but trailed most stock-market indexes. The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index and the currency hedged Morningstar MSCI Hedge Fund Index rose 0.4% and 0.2%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many hedge funds posted strong performance in January, but losses in global-macro and trend-following strategies overshadowed any overall gains in the industry,&#8221; said Nadia Papagiannis, alternative investment strategist for Morningstar.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the S&amp;P 500 and MSCI World Indexes were both up more than 2%. For 2010, investors added $1.9 billion to hedge funds in Morningstar&#8217;s database. The bulk of those assets went to global non-trend funds, while funds in the distressed securities, multi-strategy, global debt, and global equity categories leaked the most assets.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-strategy funds significantly outpaced hedge funds of funds in January. The Morningstar Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund Index rose 1.5% while the Morningstar Hedge Fund of Funds Index increased only 0.1%. Hedge funds of funds in Morningstar&#8217;s database saw $13.0 billion in outflows in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds enjoyed a slightly positive January, but trailed most stock-market indexes. The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index and the currency hedged Morningstar MSCI Hedge Fund Index rose 0.4% and 0.2%, respectively. &#8220;Many hedge funds posted [&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-20821","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\/20821","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=20821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20823,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions\/20823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}