{"id":28639,"date":"2012-04-23T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28639"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:40:51","slug":"morningstar-reports-hedge-fund-returns-of-3-3-for-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/morningstar-reports-hedge-fund-returns-of-3-3-for-first-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Morningstar reports hedge fund returns of 3.3% for first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque &#8211; Morningstar, a provider of independent investment research, today reported preliminary hedge fund performance for March and for the first quarter as well as estimated asset flows through February 2012. The\u00a0Morningstar\u00a0MSCI Composite Hedge Fund Index, an asset-weighted composite of nearly 1,000\u00a0hedge funds\u00a0in the Morningstar Hedge Fund database, eked out a 0.1% rise in March, ending the first quarter up 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a strong start in the first two months of 2012, hedge funds lost steam in March and presented a mixed picture,&#8221; said Terry Tian, alternative investments analyst with Morningstar. &#8220;While many U.S. equity strategies delivered positive returns, emerging markets, managed futures, and\u00a0currency strategies\u00a0suffered losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/IndustryUpdates\/2533\/Morningstar_reports_hedge_fund_returns_of_for253.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque &#8211; Morningstar, a provider of independent investment research, today reported preliminary hedge fund performance for March and for the first quarter as well as estimated asset flows through February 2012. The\u00a0Morningstar\u00a0MSCI Composite Hedge Fund Index, an asset-weighted composite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639","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=28639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28643,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}