{"id":44996,"date":"2014-11-13T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44996"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:32:17","slug":"hedge-funds-down-six-months-in-a-row-asia-ex-japan-out-performs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2014\/hedge-funds-down-six-months-in-a-row-asia-ex-japan-out-performs.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Down Six Months In A Row, Asia ex-Japan Out-Performs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screenshot-2014-11-12-20.30.02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-45001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screenshot-2014-11-12-20.30.02.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-11-12 20.30.02\" width=\"405\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screenshot-2014-11-12-20.30.02.jpg 465w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screenshot-2014-11-12-20.30.02-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; CTA\/managed futures strategies were the top gainer during October, gaining 0.26% and maintaining their lead over all other strategies with year-to-date returns of 6.30%.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds posted their second consecutive month of negative returns in October with the\u00a0Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index\u00a0down 0.24% while the MSCI World Index finished the month up 1.15%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a year-to-date basis, hedge funds are up 3.47%, falling behind underlying markets as the MSCI World Index returned 5.18% over the same period.<\/li>\n<li>Net asset flows into hedge funds for the year stand at US$56.9 billion despite investors redeeming a cumulative of US$18.9 billion in the last four months alone.<\/li>\n<li>China A-Share investing hedge funds posted their sixth consecutive month of positive returns and are up 9.90% October year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>Event driven funds reported the largest loss out of all strategic mandates at 2.09% in October, their biggest loss in a month since 2011.<\/li>\n<li>On the whole, Asia ex-Japan was the best performing region, finishing the month up 0.55% &#8211; out of which India focused hedge funds gained 1.51% while Greater China funds were up 1.31%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eastern Europe and Russia investing funds were down 2.26% in October, and are down 13.59% year-to-date \u2013 the worst performer among all regional mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; CTA\/managed futures strategies were the top gainer during October, gaining 0.26% and maintaining their lead over all other strategies with year-to-date returns of 6.30%. Hedge funds posted their second consecutive month of negative returns in October [&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-44996","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\/44996","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=44996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45002,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44996\/revisions\/45002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}