{"id":49089,"date":"2015-07-09T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49089"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:47:09","slug":"hedge-funds-return-2-4-in-first-half-of-year-topping-u-s-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2015\/hedge-funds-return-2-4-in-first-half-of-year-topping-u-s-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Return 2.4% in First Half Of Year, Topping U.S. Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Pension &#038; Investments) Hedge fund returns ended the first half of the year positively, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returning 2.4% in the six months ended June 30. The index\u2019s six-month return, calculated by Hedge Fund Research, topped the 1.2% return of the S&#038;P 500 index and the -0.1% return of the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond index, but trailed the MSCI World ex-U.S. index return of 4.8% as well as the 3.1% return of the MSCI Emerging Markets index.<\/p>\n<p>On a quarterly basis, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returned 2.1% in the three months ended March 31 and 0.2% in the three-month period ended June 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20150708\/ONLINE\/150709901\/hfr-hedge-funds-return-24-in-first-half-of-year-topping-us-marketshttp:\/\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pension &#038; Investments) Hedge fund returns ended the first half of the year positively, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returning 2.4% in the six months ended June 30. The index\u2019s six-month return, calculated by Hedge Fund Research, topped [&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-49089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089","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=49089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49092,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089\/revisions\/49092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}