{"id":24703,"date":"2011-09-16T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24703"},"modified":"2011-09-16T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:01:18","slug":"dow-jones-credit-suisse-hedge-fund-index-fell-2-30-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/dow-jones-credit-suisse-hedge-fund-index-fell-2-30-in-august.html","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index fell 2.30% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/PR-Newswire-for-Journalists-All-Releases1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24705\" title=\"PR Newswire for Journalists    \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/PR-Newswire-for-Journalists-All-Releases1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/PR-Newswire-for-Journalists-All-Releases1.jpg 356w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/PR-Newswire-for-Journalists-All-Releases1-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds generated negative performance in August, falling 2.30% for the month versus a loss of 7.69% for the Dow Jones Global Index.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index fell 2.30% in August, although three out of ten sectors posted positive performance for the month.&#8221;\u00a0Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index Co., LLC, said, &#8220;Overall, the index outperformed global equities by more than five percentage points with Dedicated Short Bias delivering the strongest performance, gaining 6.56% as short positions across equity markets proved profitable amidst broad market downturns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Global Macro also gained 1.91% as managers employed tactical trading strategies to navigate the high levels of volatility seen in August.&#8221; Schupp continued, &#8220;The industry saw an estimated\u00a0$4.77 billion\u00a0in inflows. Including August&#8217;s performance, total industry assets are now estimated at\u00a0$1.79 trillion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds generated negative performance in August, falling 2.30% for the month versus a loss of 7.69% for the Dow Jones Global Index. &#8220;The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index fell 2.30% in August, although [&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-24703","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\/24703","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=24703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24706,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions\/24706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}