{"id":50956,"date":"2015-12-15T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50956"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:38:08","slug":"longshort-and-computer-based-trading-funds-attract-most-assets-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/longshort-and-computer-based-trading-funds-attract-most-assets-in-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Long\/Short and Computer-Based Trading Funds Attract Most Assets in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 With the world\u2019s equity markets seeing an increase in volatility in the second half of the year and with the S&#038;P going through a choppy period in the first half of the year, the two hedge fund styles that have seen the greatest inflows this year are equity long\/short funds and computer-based funds. <\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data from Eurekahedge, long\/short strategies have seen inflows of $31.5 billion on a year to date basis through the end of November. While the net inflows are the highest of any of the different styles, that total is a decline from the $48.6 billion they took in during 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Computer-based trading funds saw inflows of $29.8 billion in inflows and that is in sharp contrast to the $16.1 billion in outflows the strategy saw in 2014. For 2015, the strategies seeing significant outflows are relative value ($3 billion), arbitrage funds ($2.8 billion), distressed debt ($1.8 billion) and event-driven funds ($1.8 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 With the world\u2019s equity markets seeing an increase in volatility in the second half of the year and with the S&#038;P going through a choppy period in the first half of the year, the two 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":[919,16,3,16048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-networks-press-releases","category-hedgeco-news","category-hedgecovest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956","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=50956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50957,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions\/50957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}