{"id":41973,"date":"2014-05-07T06:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41973"},"modified":"2014-05-07T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:14:25","slug":"hedge-funds-get-11-2-billion-in-march-and-outperform-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/hedge-funds-get-11-2-billion-in-march-and-outperform-sp-500.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Get $11.2 Billion in March and Outperform S&#038;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104594\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that hedge funds took $11.2 billion (0.5% of assets) in March, down from a three-year high of $24.9 billion (1.2% of assets) in February.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104593\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cInvestors pumped $38.6 billion into hedge funds in the first quarter, the best quarterly inflow since the first quarter of 2011, when the industry took in $47.9 billion,\u201d said Sol Waksman, president and founder of BarclayHedge.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104595\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Industry assets climbed to a 5\u00bd-year high of $2.2 trillion in March, according to estimates based on data from 3,375 funds.\u00a0 Assets rose 19% in the past 12 months but were down 9% from the all-time high of $2.4 trillion in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104597\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The monthly\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104596\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">TrimTabs\/BarclayHedge Hedge Fund Flow Report\u00a0<\/em>noted that the hedge fund industry earned just 0.02% in March but outperformed the S&amp;P 500, which lost 0.8%. \u00a0In the past 12 months, the industry returned 8.5%, while the S&amp;P 500 gained 22.0%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104592\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Equity Long Bias hedge funds, the best-performing category in the past 12 months, had a rough month.\u00a0 \u201cEquity Long Bias funds delivered a return of just 0.2% in March, down from their six-month high of 3.0% in February,\u201d Waksman said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104590\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The monthly\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1399364977877_104591\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">TrimTabs\/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers<\/em>\u00a0finds that more than half of surveyed managers are neutral on the S&amp;P 500 over the next 30 days, the highest level in two years, and the rest are evenly split between bullish and bearish.\u00a0 The majority favoring developed markets grew a bit slimmer as optimism on emerging markets climbed to a 13-month high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that hedge funds took $11.2 billion (0.5% of assets) in March, down from a three-year high of $24.9 billion (1.2% of assets) in February. \u201cInvestors pumped $38.6 billion into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973","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=41973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41974,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973\/revisions\/41974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}