{"id":45647,"date":"2014-12-30T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45647"},"modified":"2014-12-30T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:34:33","slug":"hedge-fund-benchmarks-lowest-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/hedge-fund-benchmarks-lowest-since-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Benchmarks Lowest Since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-30-13.24.19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-45649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-30-13.24.19.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-12-30 13.24.19\" width=\"354\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-30-13.24.19.jpg 446w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-30-13.24.19-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Preqin\u2019s Q3 2014 hedge fund performance benchmarks reveal that hedge funds are in the red for the quarter, the first negative\u00a0quarter for the All Regions and Strategies Hedge Funds benchmark since Q2 2012, when concerns surrounding Greece leaving the\u00a0Eurozone caused equity markets to tumble.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Q3 2014 was the poorest quarter for hedge funds (-0.36%) since Q2 2012 and saw Preqin\u2019s All Hedge Funds benchmark\u00a0negative for both July (-0.14%) and September (-1.21%).<\/li>\n<li>Year-todate\u00a0returns have now fallen to 3.33%, which compares poorly to the return of 7.77% posted by the industry in the same period in\u00a02013.<\/li>\n<li>CTAs continued their recovery with their best quarterly performance\u00a0(+5.52%) since Q4 2010. Six consecutive positive months have grown their return for the year so far to 7.13%.<\/li>\n<li>Funds of hedge funds have made a positive return on a quarterly basis since Q2 2013, and their 12-month return (+6.24%) is comparable to that of single-manager funds (+7.20%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>August was the only month in the quarter to see all core hedge\u00a0fund strategies deliver a positive return, with September\u00a0proving a challenge for long\/short funds (-2.06%) in particular.\u00a0The strategy has delivered a negative return for five of the nine\u00a0months of the year so far, accumulating 2.99%.<\/p>\n<p>Event driven funds had their poorest quarter (-2.32%) for over two years, though their 12-month return of 7.43% lags only CTAs (+9.60%) in a ranking of core strategies.<\/p>\n<p>A turbulent quarter across all regions globally saw North America and\u00a0emerging markets-focused funds hit hardest by a negative\u00a0September across the board. A slow-down in growth for the\u00a0US equity markets was perhaps reflected in the negative<br \/>\nquarterly return of North America-focused funds (-1.43%), though\u00a0the region remains the best performer over 12 months (+9.08%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Preqin\u2019s Q3 2014 hedge fund performance benchmarks reveal that hedge funds are in the red for the quarter, the first negative\u00a0quarter for the All Regions and Strategies Hedge Funds benchmark since Q2 2012, when concerns surrounding [&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-45647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45647","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=45647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45656,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45647\/revisions\/45656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}