{"id":27310,"date":"2012-02-08T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27310"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:52:24","slug":"event-driven-hedge-funds-up-3-54-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/event-driven-hedge-funds-up-3-54-in-january.html","title":{"rendered":"Event-driven hedge funds up 3.54% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Calendar-01-January-q75-1945x1522-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27311\" title=\"Calendar-12-January\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Calendar-01-January-q75-1945x1522-1-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Calendar-01-January-q75-1945x1522-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Calendar-01-January-q75-1945x1522-1-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Calendar-01-January-q75-1945x1522-1.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds ended a two-month losing streak, profiting from the January market surge. The\u00a0Hedge Fund Intelligence Global Composite Index\u00a0rose 1.27%. <\/p>\n<p>The equity market rally handily exceeded hedge fund returns, however, with the MSCI World Index (net) rising 5.02% for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Event-driven funds were the best performers globally with a gain of 3.54% in January. This is the strategy\u2019s best performing month in the history of the HedgeFund Intelligence database, which began collecting data in 1998 (the second best month was November 2004, when the Event Driven Index rose 3.25%).<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., all strategies were positive except commodities funds, which fell 1.28%.\u00a0Equity funds rose 2.37% in January, their best start to the year since 2006 when they were up 3.11%.\u00a0Despite a positive return, emerging market debt funds fell into last place globally, with an almost flat return of 0.30% in January.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <br \/>Editor for <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 ended a two-month losing streak, profiting from the January market surge. The\u00a0Hedge Fund Intelligence Global Composite Index\u00a0rose 1.27%. The equity market rally handily exceeded hedge fund returns, however, with the MSCI World Index (net) [&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-27310","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\/27310","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=27310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27313,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions\/27313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}