{"id":24504,"date":"2011-09-06T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24504"},"modified":"2011-09-06T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:56:35","slug":"ucits-alternative-index-down-1-81in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/ucits-alternative-index-down-1-81in-august.html","title":{"rendered":"UCITS Alternative Index Down -1.81% In August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The UCITS Alternative Index Global is down in August (-1.81%) bringing its year to date performance to -2.55%. The Fund of Funds Index is down -2.14% reaching -3.27% this year.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the Commodities Index, all strategies are down this month. Emerging Markets is by far the worst performing strategy, down -4.71%. The Long\/Short Equity Index is down -2.83%, with several of its constituent funds down more than 10% this month. On year to date, all strategies are now negative except for Commodities, which is up 4.28%. The Emerging Markets Index is the worst performing one with -5.38% YTD, followed by the Long\/Short Equity Index with -3.89% YTD.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_1315305036102409\">In terms of AUM, the UCITS hedge fund space witnessed a decline of -2.96% in August. The largest drop is observed for the Event-Driven and FX funds, with respectively -11.82% and -6.68% in AUM. At the same time and despite the difficult market environment, Commodities and Emerging Markets funds record an increase of AUM, respectively 3.51% and 1.30%. Funds of Funds continue to attract assets with a progression of 4.79% in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The UCITS Alternative Index Global is down in August (-1.81%) bringing its year to date performance to -2.55%. The Fund of Funds Index is down -2.14% reaching -3.27% this year. Except for the Commodities Index, all [&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-24504","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\/24504","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=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24508,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions\/24508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}