{"id":49419,"date":"2015-07-31T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49419"},"modified":"2015-07-31T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:59:58","slug":"fund-of-funds-outperform-hedge-funds-in-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2015\/fund-of-funds-outperform-hedge-funds-in-past-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Fund of Funds Outperform Hedge Funds in Past Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 The latest report from eVestment showed that over the past year, funds of hedge funds have performed better than hedge funds themselves. The semi-annual report for July reported that the average fund of funds gained 6.65% from May 2014 through May 2015 while the average hedge fund gained 5.84%. <\/p>\n<p>These figures are on a global scale, but the same held true with U.S. focused funds as well. Just looking at domestic funds, FoHFs were up 5.65% during the period discussed while single manager funds were up 4.73%.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the top performing FoHFs were those focused on the Asia-Pacific region. Funds focused exclusively in the region gained an average of 14.77% year over year. It is also worth mentioning that the report showed an uptick in volatility in both FoHFs and single manager funds. For FoHFs volatility increased by 5.34% during the 12-month period and for single manager funds, the increase was 9.79%.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 The latest report from eVestment showed that over the past year, funds of hedge funds have performed better than hedge funds themselves. The semi-annual report for July reported that the average fund of funds gained 6.65% [&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-49419","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\/49419","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=49419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49420,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49419\/revisions\/49420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}