{"id":24853,"date":"2011-09-21T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24853"},"modified":"2011-09-21T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:56:00","slug":"hedge-funds-outperformed-global-markets-by-5-29-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/hedge-funds-outperformed-global-markets-by-5-29-in-august.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds outperformed global markets by 5.29% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; September\u2019s edition of The Eurekahedge Report takes an in-depth look at the Latin American hedge fund sector as well as Islamic fund sector, with our regular analysis of the industry&#8217;s perfomance to date in comparison with previous years and what is to come.<\/p>\n<p>In this month&#8217;s Billion Dollar Interview, we talk to Jerome Booth, Head of Research at Ashmore Investment Management.\u00a0The report also contains a look at the most up-to-date data numbers for August in our regular performance and asset flows sections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights from this month\u2019s report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedge funds outperformed global markets by 5.29% in August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch activity remains strong in 2011 with more than 580 funds launched in the first seven months of the year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Net asset flows remained positive for the ninth consecutive month- US$1.5 billion in August and US$120.8 billion for the year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Arbitrage, distressed debt, event driven, long\/short equity and relative value funds witnessed their fourth consecutive month of negative returns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>North American hedge funds witnessed their 19th consecutive month of net positive asset flows, gaining US$148.4 billion over this period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>North American fixed income funds are the best performing so far this year up 4.44% for 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; September\u2019s edition of The Eurekahedge Report takes an in-depth look at the Latin American hedge fund sector as well as Islamic fund sector, with our regular analysis of the industry&#8217;s perfomance to date in comparison with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853","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=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24854,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions\/24854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}