{"id":31157,"date":"2012-09-07T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31157"},"modified":"2012-09-07T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:06:07","slug":"ucits-hedge-fund-strategy-index-up-0-39-in-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/ucits-hedge-fund-strategy-index-up-0-39-in-august-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"UCITS Hedge Fund Strategy Index up +0.39% in August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; After four consecutive negative months, the\u00a0UCITS\u00a0Hedge Fund Strategy\u00a0(HFS) Index posted a gain of +0.39% for August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A few days into the month the UCITS HFS Index started to gain momentum and cumulated gains of +0.44% after the first full week of trading. The second week of the month brought along additional gains of +0.07%, therefore slight losses in week three (-0.03%) and four (-0.08%) were not decisive enough to impact the positive monthly performance. Of all funds tracked in the UCITS HFS Index 63.96% returned gains in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>From a sub-strategy perspective nine out of the twelve sub-strategies were positive in August, the best performing being Commodity (+1.38%), Global Macro (+1.20%) and L\/S Equity (+0.86%). While the first reported gains except for the last week of trading, the latter two were only positive in the first half of August. While L\/S Equity had to give up -0.46% of its August gains in the second half of the month, Global Macro only lost -0.05% in the same time period. Credit and Fixed Income remain the only two strategies with back-to-back positive monthly results in 2012 with yearly performances of +6.26% and +4.39%. The only three strategies to report a loss for August are CTA (-1.41%), Currency (-0.06%) and Market Neutral (-0.04%). Due to its August performance CTA turned negative again from a yearly perspective, having lost -0.91% in 2012 so far. From a year to date perspective the broad UCITS HFS Index now stands at +2.40% in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; After four consecutive negative months, the\u00a0UCITS\u00a0Hedge Fund Strategy\u00a0(HFS) Index posted a gain of +0.39% for August 2012. A few days into the month the UCITS HFS Index started to gain momentum and cumulated gains of +0.44% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31157","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=31157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31159,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31157\/revisions\/31159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}