{"id":41369,"date":"2014-03-31T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41369"},"modified":"2014-03-31T07:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:58:28","slug":"worlds-biggest-hedge-funds-reach-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/worlds-biggest-hedge-funds-reach-record-highs.html","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Biggest Hedge Funds Reach Record Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/research_glasses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32126 alignright\" alt=\"research\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/research_glasses.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Absolute Return just went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundintelligence.com\/Article\/3323406\/AbsoluteReturn-News\/Billion-Dollar-Club-American-hedge-fund-assets-hit-all-time-peak.html\" target=\"_blank\">live<\/a> with its latest Billion Dollar Club rankings and US hedge funds are now managing their all-time peak assets, with growth at levels not seen since before the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Assets grew by $250 billion over 2013. Last time the industry had growth like this was pre-crisis in 2007 when they grew by $407 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Club now has 293 firms managing $1.71 trillion, up from $1.46 at the start of 2013<\/li>\n<li>In % terms, that\u2019s an increase of 9% in second half of the year, and 17.16% over whole year<\/li>\n<li>Growth wasn\u2019t concentrated in just the top firms as growth amongst top 50 was 17.44% over 2013, only slightly ahead of group\u2019s 17.16% growth as a whole<\/li>\n<li>Biggest winners: J.P. Morgan, AQR, Adage, Discovery and Och-Ziff<\/li>\n<li>Biggest losers: Saba, Regiment, ESL, Standard Pacific, QIM<\/li>\n<li>Newcomers: Contour Asset Management, Archer Capital Management, HG Vora Capital Management among others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Absolute Return just went live with its latest Billion Dollar Club rankings and US hedge funds are now managing their all-time peak assets, with growth at levels not seen since before the financial crisis. Assets grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41369","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\/41369","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=41369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41375,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369\/revisions\/41375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}