{"id":41039,"date":"2014-03-07T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41039"},"modified":"2014-03-07T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:54:42","slug":"activist-strategies-lead-hedge-fund-performance-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/activist-strategies-lead-hedge-fund-performance-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Strategies Lead Hedge Fund Performance in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Survey<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds posted their highest return in February since January 2012, supported by rising equity and commodity markets. Hedge funds are outpacing the S&P by nearly 100 basis points in 2014, according to the\u00a0February 2014 February Global Hedge Fund Performance report\u00a0from eVestment.<\/p>\n

“Activist strategies are again at the top of hedge fund industry performance in 2014. The group followed a good showing in a declining market in January with the best of any primary strategy returns in February.” eVestment said.<\/p>\n

Other highlights include:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Distressed funds posted their best returns in more than two years, since January 2012, and the broad event\u00a0driven category has rewarded investors in 2014. Event driven strategies received the second highest level of new\u00a0allocations to begin 2014, behind directional equity, and have returned 3.4% in the first two months.
\n\u2022 Macro strategies were positive in February, offsetting January\u2019s losses and bringing the group into positive\u00a0territory for the year. Smaller managers were primarily to blame for macro funds\u2019 aggregate returns lagging the industry during the month. Average returns from macro strategies with greater than $1 billion in AUM was 3.2%\u00a0in February, actually near the top of the industry.
\n\u2022 Managed futures strategies appeared able to take advantage of strong upward price moves in commodities\u00a0markets in February. The group\u2019s returns were their best since mid-2012. Negative returns from FX funds were not\u00a0enough to hold the group down significantly, further indicating strong positive exposures to physical commodities across the group in February.
\n\u2022 Investors\u2019 worries over China\u2019s growth entering 2014 has hurt China-focused hedge funds for the second month in\u00a0a row. Both China and Japan funds were among the industry leaders in 2013, but sit in negative territory this\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

A bright spot in 2014 for emerging markets exposure has been Africa & the Middle East. The universe was among the\u00a0industry\u2019s best in 2013 and has begun 2014 in the same position, eVesment concluded.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson
\nEditor for\u00a0HedgeCo.net<\/a>
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New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds posted their highest return in February since January 2012, supported by rising equity and commodity markets. Hedge funds are outpacing the S&P by nearly 100 basis points in 2014, according to the\u00a0February 2014 February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41039","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=41039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41045,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41039\/revisions\/41045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}