{"id":44363,"date":"2014-10-03T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44363"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:20:12","slug":"most-hedge-fund-strategies-are-profitable-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/most-hedge-fund-strategies-are-profitable-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"BarclayHedge &#8211; Most Hedge Fund Strategies Are Profitable in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds gained 1.28% in August, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is now up 4.44% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe S&amp;P 500 gained four percent in August, propelling the index into new high ground,\u201d says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge. \u201cGlobal equity markets followed suit and rallied as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 16 of Barclay\u2019s 18 hedge fund indices had gains in August. The Barclay Healthcare &amp; Biotechnology Index jumped 4.21%, Equity Long Bias was up 2.33%, Technology gained 1.53%, Global Macro added 1.24%, and the Emerging Markets Index rose 1.10%.<\/p>\n<p>The Equity Short Index fell 4.46% in August, and Convertible Arbitrage slipped 0.15%.<\/p>\n<p>Year to date, the best performing hedge fund strategy is Healthcare &amp; Biotechnology, with a 12.69% gain. The Distressed Securities Index is up 6.22%, the Event Driven Index has gained 5.42%, Fixed Income Arbitrage is up 4.90%, and Equity Long Bias has gained 4.77%.<\/p>\n<p>Only two BarclayHedge indices have losses in 2014. Equity Short Bias is down 13.28%, and the Technology Index has lost 2.36%.<\/p>\n<p>The Barclay Fund of Funds Index gained 0.80% in August, and is up 2.27% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barclayhedge.com\/cgi-bin\/site\/awards\/awards_pick_sector.cgi?date=2014-08-01&amp;type=HF\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the August 2014 Hedge Fund Monthly Performance Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds gained 1.28% in August, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is now up 4.44% in 2014. \u201cThe S&amp;P 500 gained four percent in August, propelling the index into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44363","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=44363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44367,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44363\/revisions\/44367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}