{"id":34533,"date":"2013-03-25T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34533"},"modified":"2013-03-25T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:55:32","slug":"investors-pull-1-1-billion-from-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/investors-pull-1-1-billion-from-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors Pull $1.1 Billion From Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stock_exchange_chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-30233\" alt=\"stock_exchange_chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stock_exchange_chart.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stock_exchange_chart.jpg 420w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stock_exchange_chart-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Morningstar has reported preliminary hedge fund performance for February 2013 as well as estimated asset flows through January 2013. The Morningstar MSCI Composite Hedge Fund Index rose 0.5% in February and 5.4% over the trailing 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The top three performing hedge fund strategies in February were small\/mid cap, European, and emerging market equities. In January 2013, single-manager funds in Morningstar\u2019s hedge fund database had inflows of $3.3 billion, marking the first month of inflows after four months of outflows.<\/p>\n<p>The worst-performing strategies for February were global macro and trend-following. The challenging conditions of rapid trend reversalsthat have prevailed for over two years continued in February. The Morningstar MSCI Systematic Trading Hedge Fund Index, which representstrend-following strategies, posted a 1.6% decline, while the Morningstar<br \/>\nMSCI Directional Trading Hedge Fund Index, which also includes global-macro strategies, fell 1.2% for the month.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2013, single-manager funds in Morningstar\u2019s hedge fund database had inflows of $3.3 billion, marking the first month of inflows after four months of outflows. Hedge funds in the Multistrategy category had the largest inflows in January, adding $1.8 billion. Global macro hedge funds also saw inflows, gaining $873 million in assets. The biggest outflows occurred in the Long-Only Other and Global Long\/Short Equity categories, leaking $738 million and $142 million, respectively, during the month. Over the trailing 12 months, investors have pulled $1.1 billion from hedge funds tracked by Morningstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Morningstar has reported preliminary hedge fund performance for February 2013 as well as estimated asset flows through January 2013. The Morningstar MSCI Composite Hedge Fund Index rose 0.5% in February and 5.4% over the trailing 12 [&hellip;]<\/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-34533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533","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=34533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34534,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533\/revisions\/34534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}