{"id":46368,"date":"2015-02-10T07:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46368"},"modified":"2015-02-10T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:21:33","slug":"multi-strategy-hedge-funds-reach-337-5-billion-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/multi-strategy-hedge-funds-reach-337-5-billion-in-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds Reach $337.5 Billion In 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-10-12.36.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-46371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-10-12.36.22.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-02-10 12.36.22\" width=\"314\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-10-12.36.22.jpg 401w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-10-12.36.22-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-10-12.36.22-300x319.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds were off to a good start in the first month of the year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekahedge.com\/Indices\" target=\"_blank\">Eurekahedge reports<\/a>.\u00a0Assets under management of multi-strategy hedge funds touched an all time high of $337.5 billion, with managers raking in performance-based gains of $6 billion in January alone.<\/p>\n<p>CTA\/managed futures funds delivered the best performance among all strategic mandates, up 4.65% in January as managers won big on oil and currency futures.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for the month of January 2015 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 1.43% in January, beating the MSCI World Index which finished the month down 0.41%.<\/li>\n<li>Hedge funds outperformed underlying markets as heavyweights shone with the Eurekahedge Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Index up 1.79% during the month.<\/li>\n<li>Distressed debt strategies were down another 2.01% this month, reporting their fifth month of negative returns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian hedge funds were the top performers with gains of 6.80% while Eastern Europe and Russia mandated funds delivered the worst results down 2.46% for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor <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 were off to a good start in the first month of the year, Eurekahedge reports.\u00a0Assets under management of multi-strategy hedge funds touched an all time high of $337.5 billion, with managers raking in performance-based [&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-46368","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\/46368","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=46368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46397,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46368\/revisions\/46397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}