{"id":25632,"date":"2011-10-25T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25632"},"modified":"2011-10-25T09:25:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:25:53","slug":"september-hedge-fund-index-performance-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2011\/september-hedge-fund-index-performance-commentary.html","title":{"rendered":"September Hedge Fund Index Performance Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The\u00a0Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 3.20% in September compared with a drop of 9.88% for the Dow Jones Global Index.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0monthly commentary offers insight into hedge fund performance through the month of September. Some key findings from the report include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Uncertain market conditions benefitted Dedicated Short Bias \u2013 the only sector to post positive performance for the month;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Long\/Short Equity managers saw declines, although the sector fared better than broad equity markets, with the Dow Jones Global Index down 9.88% in September, and 18.19% in Q3;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Tactical strategies, such as Global Macro and Managed Futures, were generally able to withstand the volatile market conditions by maintaining relatively low long exposure or some short exposure to equities; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Relative value strategies, such as Multi-Strategy, Convertible Arbitrage and Fixed Income Arbitrage generally experienced mark-to\u00admarket portfolio losses. However, sufficient market liquidity, low leverage and generally defensive positioning have helped managers avoid the pitfalls experienced in 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The\u00a0Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 3.20% in September compared with a drop of 9.88% for the Dow Jones Global Index. A new\u00a0monthly commentary offers insight into hedge fund performance through the month [&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-25632","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\/25632","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=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25634,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions\/25634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}