{"id":40653,"date":"2014-02-18T06:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40653"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:07:12","slug":"hedge-funds-outperform-underlying-markets-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/hedge-funds-outperform-underlying-markets-in-january.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Outperform Underlying Markets In January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/download-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40657 alignleft\" alt=\"download (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/download-2.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds surpassed the MSCI World Index by over 3% in January, according to new data from the February 2014 Eurekahedge report. Almost 90% of fund managers outperformed underlying markets during the month.<\/p>\n<p>Final figures for 2013 put the growth in global hedge fund AUM at $240 billion. Investors allocated $4.4 billion to long\/short equity strategy hedge funds\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge fund performance-based gains and net asset inflows for the year stand at $103 billion and $137 billion respectively. Eurekahedge also reports that for the first time ever, fund of hedge funds outperformed underlying single managers, up 8.09% in 2013 &#8211; their best performance in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2750\">CTA\/managed futures strategy recorded net outflows of $7.9 billion in 2H 2013 as trend following strategies ended 2013 in negative territory<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2751\">Developed markets investing hedge funds fared better than those focused on emerging economies, with North American, European and Japanese hedge funds delivering positive returns amid difficult market conditions<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2752\">Emerging markets investing hedge funds outperformed the MSCI EM Index by 2.3% during the month, and by 4.9% overall in 2013<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2753\">Distressed debt hedge funds delivered the best returns during the month \u2013 up 2.05% with the\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2754\">Eurekahedge North America Distressed Debt Hedge Fund Index<\/em>\u00a0gaining 3.25% in January<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392722977742_2755\">The population of Asian hedge funds increased in 2013 with 143 launches and 108 closures &#8211; total number of funds currently stand at 1,333 managing $146.7 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Average hedge fund management and performance-based fees for new launches dropped to 1.4% and 16.0% respectively in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds surpassed the MSCI World Index by over 3% in January, according to new data from the February 2014 Eurekahedge report. Almost 90% of fund managers outperformed underlying markets during the month. Final figures for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-performance-2","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653","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=40653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40662,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions\/40662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}