{"id":48811,"date":"2015-06-18T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48811"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:36:59","slug":"56-billion-in-latin-american-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2015\/56-billion-in-latin-american-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"$56-Billion in Latin American Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Eurekahedge) In June&#8217;s issue of The Eurekahedge Report, we take a look at the US$56.7 billion Latin American hedge fund industry along with our regular coverage of monthly returns, performance and asset flows.<\/p>\n<p>Among a recent survey conducted with AIMA Japan to gauge Japanese investor insights in hedge funds and alternatives, 72% of investors considered Abenomics a success in 2013 and 2014, however, almost 90% believe that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will fail to reach its inflation target of 2% by end-2015. A summary of the key highlights from the survey is available here. A slideshow summary is available on the Eurekahedge Dashboard. Please contact us for a copy of the full report.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge fund assets under management have increased by US$92 billion in the first five months of 2015, with one-third of this increase coming from new investor allocations. Total industry AUM stands at a record high of US$2.23 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Asia ex-Japan investing funds have delivered the best 2015 year-to-date returns globally, returning 15.0% and have grown their asset based by US$15.4 billion since the start of the year, bringing the region&#8217;s current AUM to a record high of US$159.8 billion. <\/p>\n<p>European hedge funds are up 5.54% year-to-date, following dismal gains of 0.56% in 2014. Total assets under management have increased by US$20.1 billion since the start of the year helped by US$7.4 billion in new investor allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Long\/short equities hedge funds performed the best for May and 2015 year-to-date across all strategic mandates reporting 1.47% and 7.31% respectively. <\/p>\n<p>North American managers lead in terms of year to date net investor inflows recording US$17.5 billion in new allocations, about half the level seen for the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Eurekahedge) In June&#8217;s issue of The Eurekahedge Report, we take a look at the US$56.7 billion Latin American hedge fund industry along with our regular coverage of monthly returns, performance and asset flows. Among a recent survey conducted with AIMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811","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=48811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48812,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811\/revisions\/48812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}