{"id":41612,"date":"2014-04-16T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41612"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:25:45","slug":"eurekahedge-hedge-fund-index-outperforms-sp-500-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/eurekahedge-hedge-fund-index-outperforms-sp-500-in-q1.html","title":{"rendered":"Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index Outperforms S&#038;P 500 in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wave-185x114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19440\" alt=\"UCITS Hedge Fund Strategy Index\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wave-185x114.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The Eurekahedge North America Hedge Fund Index was up 2.25% in the first quarter of 2014, outperforming the S&amp;P 500 index which gained 1.30% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds are up 0.87% in Q1 2014, with fund managers delivering performance-based gains of US$21 billion and recording net asset inflows of US$38 billion over this period \u2013 bringing the current AUM of the global hedge fund industry to US$2.07 trillion, a new record high.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights from the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long\/short equities funds record their 16th consecutive month of positive net asset flows, with net capital allocations to the strategy for Q1 2014 at US$38.5 billion and total assets in long\/short equities hedge funds standing at US$704.6 billion \u2013 nearing close to their historical high of US$756 billion reached in December 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Distressed debt hedge funds have managed to stay in the black for the past nine months, with the highest quarterly return among all strategic mandates at 2.76%.<\/li>\n<li>Investors continued to jump ship from CTA\/managed futures hedge funds which posted their 10th consecutive month of net asset outflows in March, and have seen redemptions worth US$5.3 billion in the first quarter of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Japan investing hedge funds recorded their third consecutive month of negative returns, down 1.91% in the first quarter though managers have outperformed the Tokyo Topix by almost 6% over this period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total assets in North American hedge funds reached a new high of US$1.39 trillion with assets growing by US$33.2 billion in the first quarter of the year on account of strong performance-based gains and capital allocations in the month of February.<\/p>\n<p>Total assets in European hedge funds now stand at U$476.2 billion, surpassing their historical high of US$473 billion reached in October 2007. Assets under management have grown by US$21.8 billion in the first quarter of 2014 as the region recorded its 16th consecutive month of positive asset inflows.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The Eurekahedge North America Hedge Fund Index was up 2.25% in the first quarter of 2014, outperforming the S&amp;P 500 index which gained 1.30% over the same period. Hedge funds are up 0.87% in Q1 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-performance-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612","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=41612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41615,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612\/revisions\/41615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}