{"id":44033,"date":"2014-09-16T08:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44033"},"modified":"2014-09-16T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:23:38","slug":"eurekahedge-hedge-funds-up-4-16-ytd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/eurekahedge-hedge-funds-up-4-16-ytd.html","title":{"rendered":"Eurekahedge: Hedge Funds Up 4.16% YTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-16-12.21.20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-44041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-16-12.21.20.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-09-16 12.21.20\" width=\"406\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-16-12.21.20.jpg 474w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-16-12.21.20-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The latest issue of The Eurekahedge Report focuses on the US$275 billion UCITS hedge fund industry along with our regular coverage of monthly returns, performance and asset flows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights from this month&#8217;s report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedge funds are up 4.16% year-to-date, registering performance-based gains of US$52.2 billion while seeing net asset inflows of US$70.9 billion in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Assets under management of UCITS hedge funds have reached a record high of US$275.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Asia ex-Japan hedge funds are on track to outperform their global peers yet again and are up 7.26% year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>European hedge funds have seen their AUM grow by 8.63% this year, attracting US$32.2 billion in net asset flows as at August 2014 year-to-date despite muted returns of 1.41% over the same period.<\/li>\n<li>Long\/short equity funds lead in terms of capital raising with net asset inflows of US$60 billion, followed by US$16 billion for fixed income and US$13 billion for event driven strategies year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>CTA\/managed futures hedge funds delivered the best return among all strategies in July, up 2.41% and 4.53% year-to-date though investors have redeemed US$12 billion from the strategy in 2014 alone.<\/li>\n<li>India investing hedge funds continue to record strong gains, reporting their seventh consecutive month of positive returns \u2013 up 2.54% and 28.52% year-to-date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Latin American managers were the best performers during the month, returning 2.20%. Managers investing with a Brazilian mandate were the star performers in the region as underlying equity markets saw a sharp rally in anticipation of the upcoming elections. North American hedge funds gained 1.68%, buoyed by strong tailwinds as the S&amp;P 500 rose 3.77%. On the other hand, the\u00a0Eurekahedge European Hedge Fund Index was the weakest regional mandate, gaining only 0.34% as the region was plagued by persistently weak growth and inflation figures on top of the deteriorating geopolitical tensions in Ukraine. The Russian RTS Stock Index fell another 2.39% during the month. Japanese managers came in second-to-last place with gains of 0.79%, though outperforming the Nikkei 225 Index which saw losses of 1.26% in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The latest issue of The Eurekahedge Report focuses on the US$275 billion UCITS hedge fund industry along with our regular coverage of monthly returns, performance and asset flows. Highlights from this month&#8217;s report: Hedge funds are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033","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=44033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44042,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033\/revisions\/44042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}