New York (HedgeCo.Net) – January’s The Eurekahedge Report, places the spotlight on the North American hedge funds sector which has delivered returns of 54.25% since the financial crisis, gained nearly US$50 billion in 2012 and currently stands at US$1.2 trillion.<\/p>\n
Highlights from this month’s report:<\/strong> Distressed debt was the best performing strategy in 2012 with gains of 2.36% in December and 13.67% during the year<\/p>\n Total industry assets grew by US$64.5 billion in 2012, taking the size of the industry to US$1.77 trillion<\/p>\n North American hedge funds witnessed the strongest growth in assets out of all regions in 2012 gaining US$48.7 billion, 4.18% growth.<\/p>\n Relative value mandated funds witnessed the largest percentage increase in AUM year on year – US$13.3 billion, up 27.5% in 2012<\/p>\n 821 funds were launched in 2012 with 778 closures as compared with 1139 launches and 841 closures in 2011<\/p>\n In 2012, 1831 hedge funds reported annual returns above 10% and 669 hedge funds with an annual return above 20%<\/p>\n Latin American (10.56%) and Eastern European & Russian (7.95%) funds were two of the regional mandates that outperformed equity markets<\/p>\n Alex Akesson New York (HedgeCo.Net) – January’s The Eurekahedge Report, places the spotlight on the North American hedge funds sector which has delivered returns of 54.25% since the financial crisis, gained nearly US$50 billion in 2012 and currently stands at US$1.2 trillion. […]<\/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-33597","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\/33597","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=33597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33599,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33597\/revisions\/33599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 1.46% in December and up 6.19% in 2012<\/p>\n
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