{"id":45479,"date":"2014-12-16T07:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45479"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:33:59","slug":"hedge-funds-gain-117-billion-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/hedge-funds-gain-117-billion-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Gain $117 Billion In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1418646175652_285258\" class=\"yiv3204180853style1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-16-12.21.51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-45481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-16-12.21.51.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-12-16 12.21.51\" width=\"380\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-16-12.21.51.jpg 426w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-16-12.21.51-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds are up 4.62% year-to-date, and based on preliminary returns reported by funds with daily liquidity, Eurekahedge expects the index to be broadly flat in December and finish in the 4% to 5% range for 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>2014\u00a0Eurekahedge Report<\/em>\u00a0also announced that the total AUM of the industry grew by $117 billion in 2014 &#8211; well below the levels seen in 2013 when industry assets grew by $240 billion. Net asset inflows for the year stand at $40.8 billion, one-third of the inflows recorded in 2013. Inflows for 1H 2014 stood at $75.8 billion while 2H 2014 has seen net outflows of $35 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asia ex-Japan investing funds have delivered the best returns globally and are up 8.54% for the year, outperforming the MSCI Asia ex Japan by over 400 basis points.<\/li>\n<li>CTA\/managed futures funds have reported performance-based gains of $18.7 billion for the year which is their highest November year-to-date gain since 2008, with North American CTAs leading with year-to-date returns of 9.22%.<\/li>\n<li>India investing hedge funds reported their tenth consecutive month of positive returns with managers deploying long\/short equities strategy up 54.44% year-to-date &#8211; outperforming the BSE Sensex by almost 20%.<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1418646175652_285273\">European managers continue to face headwinds, generating only 1.21% of returns for the year. They have reported strong investor withdrawals of $14.8 billion in the second half of 2014, their highest 2H withdrawals since 2011 when investors redeemed $38.3 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The benchmark <em>Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index<\/em> was up 1.46%<span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;\">\u00a0<\/span>in November, while the MSCI World Index\u00a0gained 2.34% over the month. Total assets under management increased by $12.3 billion during the month as the sector witnessed performance-based gains of $19.64 billion while registering net asset outflows of $7.4 billion. The total size of the industry now stands at $2.13 trillion.<\/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; Hedge funds are up 4.62% year-to-date, and based on preliminary returns reported by funds with daily liquidity, Eurekahedge expects the index to be broadly flat in December and finish in the 4% to 5% range for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,919,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479","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=45479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45484,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479\/revisions\/45484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}