{"id":42193,"date":"2014-05-20T07:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42193"},"modified":"2014-05-20T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:50:48","slug":"hedge-funds-total-asstets-at-2-9-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/hedge-funds-total-asstets-at-2-9-trillion.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Total Assets At $2.09 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-2014-05-20-12.57.351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-42198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-2014-05-20-12.57.351.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-05-20 12.57.35\" width=\"435\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-2014-05-20-12.57.351.jpg 516w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-2014-05-20-12.57.351-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; In the May issue, The Eurekahedge Report found that hedge funds were up 0.78% year-to-date, with total assets of the global hedge fund industry at a new high of $2.09 trillion, with net asset inflows for April 2014 year-to-date totaling $52.4 billion. $2.7 billion higher than for the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Funds of hedge funds have outperformed hedge funds in seven out of the past 15 months, with North American funds of hedge fund managers up 6.42% over the past 12 months, surpassing the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index by 1.85% while maintaining a lower annualised volatility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other highlights Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Eurekahedge North America Hedge Fund Index is up 2.20% year-to-date, with fund managers having delivered performance-based gains of $16.0 billion while recording net asset inflows of $25.4 billion in Q1 2014 \u2013 the strongest performance among all regional mandates.<\/li>\n<li>The Eurekahedge Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Club posted performance-based gains of $1.3 billion in April as larger hedge funds outperformed their smaller peers; delivering performance-based gains of $11.7 billion while seeing net capital inflows of $28.9 billion year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>European funds recorded their 17th consecutive month of net asset inflows, with capital allocation of $24.3 billion year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>Japanese hedge funds were down for the fourth consecutive month though they have outperformed the Nikkei 225 Index by more than 10% year-to-date; a significant outperformance.<\/li>\n<li>Distressed debt hedge funds have managed to stay in the black for the past eight months, with the highest year-to-date returns among all strategic mandates at 3.05%.<\/li>\n<li>India focused long\/short equities funds have delivered the best gains among all regional mandates \u2013 up 7.33% year-to-date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report showed that long\/short equities funds recorded their 17th consecutive month of positive net asset flows; net capital allocations at $46.9 billion year-to-date. Total assets in long\/short equities hedge funds stand at $708.7 billion, close to their December 2007 historical high of $756 billion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alex Akesson<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For HedgeCo.net<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a style=\"color: #743399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in HedgeCo.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; In the May issue, The Eurekahedge Report found that hedge funds were up 0.78% year-to-date, with total assets of the global hedge fund industry at a new high of $2.09 trillion, with net asset inflows 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":[16042,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-performance-2","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193","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=42193"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42212,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions\/42212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}