{"id":39249,"date":"2013-11-20T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39249"},"modified":"2013-11-20T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:53:52","slug":"political-agenda-added-risk-to-the-hedge-fund-market-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/political-agenda-added-risk-to-the-hedge-fund-market-in-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Agenda Added Risk To the Hedge Fund Market In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/government+shutdown3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39253\" alt=\"government+shutdown3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/government+shutdown3-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/government+shutdown3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/government+shutdown3.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; New research from Eurekahedge shows that hedge funds delivered healthy gains in October as global markets trended upwards during the month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;US related news dominated global markets for most of the month starting with the 16 day partial shutdown of the government.&#8221; The company said, &#8220;Political wrangling in the US Congress over the debt limit added risk to the markets, with equities declining at the start of the month. The shutdown was ended mid-month, which saw equities gain traction. Positive macroeconomic data throughout the month as well as the expectation that the US Federal Reserve will postpone tapering added further impetus to global markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedge funds raised US$100 billion through asset flows in 2013 as at October year-to-date<\/li>\n<li>Total assets in the hedge fund industry reached new record high of US$1.97 trillion<\/li>\n<li>Assets in Greater China focused funds reached US$12.9 billion, the highest level on record<\/li>\n<li>Asia ex-Japan hedge funds have outperformed the underlying markets by more than 5% October year-to-date<\/li>\n<li>Japanese hedge funds remained ahead of other regions, up 22.68% as at end-October 2013<\/li>\n<li>Greater China focused hedge funds up 13.77% October year-to-date<\/li>\n<li>Distressed debt hedge funds up 13.02% October year-to-date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1384949194099_27750\">Hedge fund returns were up for the second consecutive month in October amid trend reversals in the underlying markets. The\u00a0<i>Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index<\/i>\u00a0was up\u00a01.41%\u00a0during the month, bringing its year-to-date return to 5.84%. The MSCI World Index gained 3.75% during the month.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1384949194099_27751\">Total assets under management (AUM) increased by $19.7 billion during the month, bringing the size of the industry to $1.97 trillion. Most of the positive impact on total assets in October came from performance as managers gained $18.6 billion over the course of the month. The industry also witnessed net positive asset flows of $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; New research from Eurekahedge shows that hedge funds delivered healthy gains in October as global markets trended upwards during the month. &#8220;US related news dominated global markets for most of the month starting with the 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249","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=39249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39255,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions\/39255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}