{"id":21747,"date":"2011-04-07T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21747"},"modified":"2011-04-07T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T14:48:20","slug":"hedge-funds-up-0-30-in-challenging-month-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/hedge-funds-up-0-30-in-challenging-month-of-march.html","title":{"rendered":"Hennessee: Hedge Funds Up +0.30% In Challenging Month Of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/p100082220-20wall20street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21748\" title=\"Dismal but steady\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/p100082220-20wall20street-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/p100082220-20wall20street-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/p100082220-20wall20street.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced +0.30% in March (+2.50% YTD), while the S&amp;P 500 declined -0.10% (+5.43% YTD).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarch was challenging as markets initially sold off sharply on escalating conflicts in the Middle East and tragic events in Japan .  However, markets were able to rally back during the last couple weeks to finish the month roughly unchanged,\u201d Charles Gradante, Co-Founder of Hennessee Group, said. \u201cMany hedge funds were \u201cwhipsawed\u201d as they became more defensive mid-month as risks increased, which resulted in less participation during the late month rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased +0.76% (+6.41% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index fell -0.04% (+4.83% YTD).  Bonds advanced, as the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index increased +0.06% (+0.43% YTD) and the Barclays High Yield Credit Bond Index advanced +0.32% (+3.88% YTD). The full performance press release will be distributed Monday, April 11.<\/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) \u2013 The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced +0.30% in March (+2.50% YTD), while the S&amp;P 500 declined -0.10% (+5.43% YTD). \u201cMarch was challenging as markets initially sold off sharply on escalating conflicts in the Middle East and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747","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=21747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21751,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions\/21751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}