{"id":49963,"date":"2015-09-16T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49963"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:04:57","slug":"credit-suisse-index-falls-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2015\/credit-suisse-index-falls-in-august.html","title":{"rendered":"Credit Suisse Index Falls In August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 The Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, the last of the main hedge fund indices, released August results yesterday and it showed the broad index lost 1.99% during the month. The monthly result erased the gains from July and then some, but the index is still up 0.84% for the year. We reiterate that the S&amp;P 500 lost 6.26% in August and that at the end of August the index was down 4.21% for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at some of the other indices from Credit Suisse, the top performing index was the Dedicated Short Bias index which gained 7.85% which isn\u2019t surprising in the least. For comparison purposes, the HedgeCoVest Short-Only Composite models were up 6.18% on average during the month of August.<\/p>\n<p>The Equity Market Neutral Index gained 0.95% in August and that was the only other index that gained ground during the month.<\/p>\n<p>The worst performing index from the Credit Suisse group of indices was the Event Driven Multi-Strategy Index which lost 3.32%. The Emerging Markets Index was the second worst performing group with a loss of 2.88% for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 The Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, the last of the main hedge fund indices, released August results yesterday and it showed the broad index lost 1.99% during the month. The monthly result erased the gains from [&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-49963","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\/49963","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=49963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49964,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49963\/revisions\/49964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}