{"id":43063,"date":"2014-07-15T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43063"},"modified":"2014-07-15T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:38:52","slug":"global-hedge-funds-reach-2-12-trillion-in-first-half-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/global-hedge-funds-reach-2-12-trillion-in-first-half-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Global Hedge Funds Reach $2.12 Trillion In First Half Of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/july-calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/july-calendar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/july-calendar.jpg 3938w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/july-calendar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/july-calendar-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Despite mixed returns, hedge funds grew assets under management by US$105.6 billion in the first half of 2014 bringing the current AUM of the global hedge fund industry to a record high of US$2.12 trillion, according to the July 2014 Eurekahedge Report.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Net flows into global hedge funds totalled US$65.3 billion in the first half of 2014, closely trailing the US$67.0 billion inflows during the same period last year.<\/li>\n<li>European hedge funds attracted US$31.3 billion in net asset flows in the first half of 2014, up from US$15.9 billion over the same period last year.<\/li>\n<li>North American managers posted performance-based gains of US$29.6 billion while recording net asset flows of US$ 31.4 billion as at June-2014 year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>Long\/short equity hedge funds recorded their strongest mid-year asset flow numbers since H1 2006 \u2013 with net capital allocations of US$51.6 billion June year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>New fund launches in Asia dropped in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year, with 40 hedge fund start-ups this year versus 70 in the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>North American multi-strategy and fixed income managers have performed consistently well this year, reporting gains of 8.33% and 6.35% respectively without a single losing month.<\/li>\n<li>India long\/short equity funds returned another 5.69% in June, bringing their H1 2014 returns up to an impressive 32.81%.<\/li>\n<li>CTA\/managed futures hedge funds recorded US$9.1 billion of outflows as of H1 2014, witnessing only one month of positive inflows in the last 12 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hedge funds followed global equity markets higher to close 1.25% up by the end of June, with the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index reaching another new high during the month. Global equity markets saw another month of broad-based gains in June, with the strongest performers being Asia Pacific and Latin America for the emerging economies and North America for developed economies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Editing by Alex Akesson<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a style=\"color: #743399;\" href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #743399;\" 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. 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We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #743399;\" title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Despite mixed returns, hedge funds grew assets under management by US$105.6 billion in the first half of 2014 bringing the current AUM of the global hedge fund industry to a record high of US$2.12 trillion, according [&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-43063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063","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=43063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43074,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063\/revisions\/43074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}