{"id":5578,"date":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"emerging-market-hedge-funds-are-in-full-swing-studies-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2007\/emerging-market-hedge-funds-are-in-full-swing-studies-show.html","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Market Hedge Funds are in Full Swing Studies Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"copy\">HedgeCo.Net (New York) &#8211;<\/span> Hedge funds that specialize in emerging markets rose 20.49% in 2006, according to new data, and mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets reacheda record value of $635.4 billion in 2006 via 10,995 deals, according to data company Dealogic. China was the busiest emerging market with deals worth $104.3 billion, an increase of 69% on 2005.Russia and South Korea followed with $98.5 billion and $42.3 billion worth of deals respectively. The MSCI Emerging Markets index rose 29.2% last year, Oliver Schupp, president of the index said in astatement, &#8220;Record highs in global markets and mergers and acquisition activity along with a stronger than expected earnings season, a pause in the continual increasing of interest rates by theFederal Reserve, high energy prices and volatility fluctuations were positive contributors to hedge fund performance in 2006.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The average emerging market fund beat out all other individual hedge fund strategies, according to numbers published by New York-based Credit Suisse&#8217;s Credit Suisse\/Tremont Hedge Fund Index. Hedge  Fund Research Inc. said the average hedge fund gained 12.99%.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  Alex Akesson<br \/>  Contributing Writer<br \/>  HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: <a href=\"mailto:Editor@hedgeco.net\">Editor@hedgeco.net<\/a> <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">    HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge    Funds!  <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">      <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=      \"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a>    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net (New York) &#8211; Hedge funds that specialize in emerging markets rose 20.49% in 2006, according to new data, and mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets reacheda record value of $635.4 billion in 2006 via 10,995 deals, according to data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}