{"id":22676,"date":"2011-05-25T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22676"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:52:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:52:31","slug":"hedge-fund-assets-cross-1-81-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/hedge-fund-assets-cross-1-81-trillion.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Assets Cross $1.81 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds delivered another month of strong returns aided by favourable market conditions in April 2011 and rallies in underlying markets, according to the May 2011 Eurekahedge Report. Total net flows for the first four months of 2011 to $93.94 billion, exceeding the 2010 total of $66.24 billion.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aprilsecuredownload1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22681\" title=\"Aprilsecuredownload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aprilsecuredownload1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aprilsecuredownload1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aprilsecuredownload1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Total assets under management crossed $1.81 trillion\u00a0for the first time since the financial crisis\u00a0as investors continued to allocate capital to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Updated April figures indicate that managers attracted a massive $28.33 billion in April \u2013 by far the highest inflow since June 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all regional mandates delivered net gains in April, with the exception of Japanese hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Performance-based gains stood at $23.97 billion for April as most funds delivered good performance on the back of favourable market conditions. March asset flows were also revised upward with gains to the tune of $23.85 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other key highlights for the month of April include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Hedge funds see tenth consecutive month of positive returns, gaining 13.48% over this period.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         CTA\/managed futures funds up 3.12% in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Funds of hedge funds see first quarter of net positive asset flows since 1Q 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Asian hedge funds witness twelve consecutive months of net positive asset flows.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Long\/short equity funds have attracted $30.7 billion April YTD.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Launch activity remains strong with more than 200 funds launched so far in the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Assets in event driven hedge funds crossed $200 billion mark (for the first time or to reach historical highs).<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         43% of FoHFs investors are planning to increase allocations to event driven strategies over the next 3 months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         34% of FoHFs investors are planning to increase their exposure to Asia ex-Japan strategies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekahedge.com\/login.asp\">Please click here to download the full Eurekahedge Report (3 MB)<\/a> (subscription required)<\/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 delivered another month of strong returns aided by favourable market conditions in April 2011 and rallies in underlying markets, according to the May 2011 Eurekahedge Report. Total net flows for the first four months [&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-22676","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\/22676","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=22676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22679,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions\/22679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}