{"id":48619,"date":"2015-06-03T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48619"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:40:01","slug":"credit-suisse-index-up-again-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2015\/credit-suisse-index-up-again-in-may.html","title":{"rendered":"Credit Suisse Index Up Again In May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 0.83% in May and that reversed the loss of 0.38% in April. The index, which was designed to be used as a barometer for the overall hedge fund industry, is now up 3.08% on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The report also shows that the top performing index thus far in 2015 is the Credit Suisse Managed Futures Liquid Index with a gain of 7.81% and the Credit Suisse Event Driven Index is in second with a gain of 4.28%. For the month of May, the best performing index was the Credit Suisse Long\/Short Liquid Index with a gain of 1.28%. The second best performing index for the month was the Credit Suisse Global Strategies Index with a gain of 1.0%.<\/p>\n<p>The Credit Suisse Merger Arbitrage Liquid Index lagged in May with a loss of 0.09% and the index is the worst performing index YTD with a gain of 1.46%. Given the amount of M&#038;A activity in 2015, it is hard to believe the merger arbitrage index is the worst performing index.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 0.83% in May and that reversed the loss of 0.38% in April. The index, which was designed to be used as a barometer for the overall hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,16048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-networks-press-releases","category-hedgeco-news","category-hedgecovest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48620,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619\/revisions\/48620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}