{"id":42983,"date":"2014-07-10T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42983"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:30:58","slug":"hedge-funds-january-may-inflow-of-72-2-billion-highest-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/hedge-funds-january-may-inflow-of-72-2-billion-highest-since-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds: January-May Inflow of $72.2 Billion Highest since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404994509264_5880\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-42985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; \u00a0BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that the hedge fund industry took in $16.9 billion (0.7% of assets) in May, down slightly from $19.1 billion (0.8% of assets) in April.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404994509264_5882\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHedge funds raked in $72.2 billion in the first five months of this year, the strongest January-May inflows since 2007,\u201d said Sol Waksman, president and founder of BarclayHedge.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404994509264_5881\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Industry assets climbed to a 5\u00be-year high of $2.3 trillion in May, according to estimates based on data from 3,426 \u00a0funds.\u00a0 Assets rose 18% in the past 12 months but were down 6% from the all-time high of $2.4 trillion in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The monthly\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic;\">TrimTabs\/BarclayHedge Hedge Fund Flow Report\u00a0<\/em>noted that the hedge fund industry gained 1.2% in May, bouncing back from April\u2019s 0.2% loss but underperforming the S&amp;P 500, which gained 2.4%.\u00a0 In the past 12 months, the industry returned 7.6%, while the S&amp;P 500 rose 18.0%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFunds targeting distressed securities are up 5.1% this year, outperforming all other fund categories,\u201d said Waksman, who noted that macro funds fared the worst, losing 0.9%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1404994509264_5894\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The monthly\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic;\">TrimTabs\/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers<\/em>\u00a0finds a plurality of respondents was neutral on the S&amp;P 500 over the next 30 days, although bullish sentiment rose to a three-month high, and bearish sentiment dipped.\u00a0 The majority favoring developed markets grew larger, rebounding from a 15-month low in May.\u00a0 The proportion expecting crude oil prices to rise in the next six months hit a 17-month high, while the proportion expecting gold prices to climb rose to a four-month high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor\u00a0<a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #743399;\" href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. 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We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; \u00a0BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that the hedge fund industry took in $16.9 billion (0.7% of assets) in May, down slightly from $19.1 billion (0.8% of assets) in April. \u201cHedge funds raked in $72.2 [&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-42983","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\/42983","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=42983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42991,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions\/42991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}