{"id":20853,"date":"2011-02-25T07:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2011-02-25T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:36:37","slug":"dow-jones-credit-suisse-january-hedge-fund-index-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/dow-jones-credit-suisse-january-hedge-fund-index-commentary.html","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones Credit Suisse January Hedge Fund Index Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds, as measured by the Index, successfully capitalized on opportunities across most global markets as equities, credit and commodities markets rallied. Some key findings from the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Index posted positive performance in January, up 0.69%, with six out of ten strategies in the index posting positive performance for the month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Convertible Arbitrage was the best performing sector in January, up 2.16% for the month. Managers gained from a valuation richening in the space, driven in part by large institutional investors who were seeking to increase their equity exposure through converts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Equity Market Neutral managers also posted positive performance of 1.79%, as managers were able to capture profit opportunities as a result of sector rotations and stock reversals in the equity markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Event Driven managers continued to post positive performance in January, finishing up 1.80% for the month. Performance was primarily driven by core long positions in both special situation equities and distressed credit investments, due to positive developments in key events combined with a rally in post-reorganization equities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds, as measured by the Index, successfully capitalized on opportunities across most global markets as equities, credit and commodities markets rallied. Some key findings from the report include: The Index posted positive performance in January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853","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=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20854,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions\/20854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}