{"id":48359,"date":"2015-05-20T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48359"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:59:22","slug":"hedge-funds-reach-nearly-2-2-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/hedge-funds-reach-nearly-2-2-trillion.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Reach Nearly $2.2 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Calendar-05-May-q75-500x412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-16021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Calendar-05-May-q75-500x412.jpg\" alt=\"May\" width=\"385\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Calendar-05-May-q75-500x412.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Calendar-05-May-q75-500x412-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds returned $59.5 billion in performance-based gains for the first quarter of 2015, their highest Q1 gains on record since 2006 which brings the total industry AUM to a record high of nearly $2.2 trillion, according to the May issue of <em id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432124016136_8268\">The Eurekahedge Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights from this month&#8217;s report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asian hedge funds were up 5.88% in April and 9.40% year-to-date, and have increased their AUM base by US$13.3 billion since the start of the year.<\/li>\n<li>European hedge funds crossed the US$500 billion mark for the first time on record, and are up 4.78% year-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>Long\/short equities funds performed the best for April and 2015 year-to-date across all strategic mandates reporting 2.40% and 5.66% respectively.<\/li>\n<li>North American managers lead in terms of net investor inflows recording US$10.8 billion in new allocations, roughly one-third the level seen for the same period last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eurekahedge also announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), to launch a series of new volatility indices: the flagship CBOE Eurekahedge Volatility Hedge Fund Index and four sub-indices covering short volatility, long volatility, relative value opportunistic volatility, and tail risk.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<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>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<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 returned $59.5 billion in performance-based gains for the first quarter of 2015, their highest Q1 gains on record since 2006 which brings the total industry AUM to a record high of nearly $2.2 trillion, [&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-48359","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\/48359","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=48359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48379,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48359\/revisions\/48379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}