{"id":42416,"date":"2014-06-04T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42416"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:59:37","slug":"hedge-funds-record-a-strong-first-quarter-and-outperform-msci-world-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2014\/hedge-funds-record-a-strong-first-quarter-and-outperform-msci-world-index.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds record a strong first quarter and outperform MSCI World Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u2013\u00a0While the end of the first quarter was down 0.18%, Hedge funds still had a strong first quarter performance generating $30 Billion. Strong returns posted by fund managers in the previous month saw hedge fund performance (<a href=\"http:\/\/eurekahedge.com\">Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index<\/a>) up 1.05% in Q1 2014, outperforming the MSCI World Index which has gained 0.67% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Eurekahedge sites these key takeaways for the month of March 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global hedge funds were up 1.05% in Q1 2014, with North American and European fund managers leading the tables with returns of 2.50% and 1.63% respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Net asset flows for Q1 2014 stood at US$32.6 billion, with capital allocations to North American managers at US$ 17.7 billion and those for European managers at US$ 13.6 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Japan focused hedge funds posted their third consecutive month of negative returns &#8211; down 0.84% in March and 2.09% in the first quarter of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Latin America focused managers surpassed all regional mandates delivering the strongest gains \u2013 up 1.53% in March, and outperforming the MSCI EM Latin America Index2 by 2.45% in Q1 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Distressed debt investing hedge funds delivered their ninth consecutive month of positive returns \u2013 up 2.70% in the first quarter of the year.<\/li>\n<li>CTA\/managed futures hedge funds continued to languish, down 0.98% in March and 0.33% in Q1 2014. Investors have redeemed US$5.0 billion from the strategy in the first quarter of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Europe &amp; Russia focused hedge funds fared the worst, losing 2.54% in March and 8.02% in Q1 2014, weighed down by geopolitical tensions in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #ff4b33;\" title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u2013\u00a0While the end of the first quarter was down 0.18%, Hedge funds still had a strong first quarter performance generating $30 Billion. Strong returns posted by fund managers in the previous month saw hedge fund performance (Eurekahedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42417,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416\/revisions\/42417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}