{"id":34447,"date":"2013-03-19T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34447"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:40:16","slug":"eurekahedge-hedge-fund-index-up-0-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/eurekahedge-hedge-fund-index-up-0-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 0.22%"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image004\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The global hedge funds sector currently standing at more than US$1.8 trillion, the sector has seen positive returns across all regions in 2012 \u2013 with Asia ex-Japan as the best performing region at 12.14% of gains.<\/p>\n

It is also less than three months away to the 10th Asian Hedge Fund Awards in Singapore which will be held on Friday June 7th at Capella Singapore.<\/p>\n

Highlights from this month’s report:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • The\u00a0Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index<\/em>\u00a0was up 0.22% in February and is up 2.33% year-to-date<\/li>\n
  • 23% of early reporting funds attracted assets in February<\/li>\n
  • The\u00a0Eurekahedge Japan Hedge Fund Index<\/em>\u00a0crossed the 200-point mark for the first time to reach its highest level on record<\/li>\n
  • Japanese hedge funds witnessed the strongest 3-month return on record, up by 11.27%<\/li>\n
  • Nearly 250 hedge funds are up more than 10% so far in the year<\/li>\n
  • Updated figures for January show that the industry grew by US$30 billion during the month, bringing the industry back above the US$1.8 trillion mark<\/li>\n
  • European hedge funds outperformed underlying markets by 3.42% in February<\/li>\n
  • Event driven hedge funds witnessed the ninth consecutive month of positive returns – up nearly 10% since June last year<\/li>\n
  • The first two months of 2013 have seen nearly 50 funds launching globally<\/li>\n
  • Assets in Latin American hedge funds have increased by 5% in the first two months of 2013<\/li>\n
  • AUM of North American hedge funds currently at US$1.24 trillion, expected to cross historical high of US$1.25 trillion in March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The global hedge funds sector currently standing at more than US$1.8 trillion, the sector has seen positive returns across all regions in 2012 \u2013 with Asia ex-Japan as the best performing region at 12.14% of gains. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447","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=34447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34449,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447\/revisions\/34449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}