{"id":55940,"date":"2017-01-04T06:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T11:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55940"},"modified":"2017-01-04T06:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T11:21:37","slug":"latin-american-hedge-funds-continue-to-lead-all-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/latin-american-hedge-funds-continue-to-lead-all-strategies.html","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Hedge Funds Continue to Lead All Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Hennessee Group LLC announced that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index\u00c2 gained +1.21% for the month (+4.14% YTD),\u00c2 while the S&#038;P 500\u00c2 rose +3.42% (+7.58% YTD), the Dow Jones\u00c2 Industrial\u00c2 Average increased +5.41% (+9.75% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index moved higher by +2.59% (+6.32% YTD).\u00c2  Bonds were negative on the month, as the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index lost -2.37%, (+2.51% YTD).<\/p>\n<p>The top three strategies for the month were Financial Equities (+8.93%), Event Driven (+3.00%) and High Yield (+2.84%).\u00c2  The bottom three strategies for the month were Latin America (-6.34%), Short Biased (-1.79%) and Asia-Pacific (-1.35%).\u00c2  For the year, Latin American (+26.04%) continues to lead all strategies while Short Biased (-7.61%) brings up the rear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/662688\/Latin_American_hedge_funds_continue_to_lead_all268.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Hennessee Group LLC announced that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index\u00c2 gained +1.21% for the month (+4.14% YTD),\u00c2 while the S&#038;P 500\u00c2 rose +3.42% (+7.58% YTD), the Dow Jones\u00c2 Industrial\u00c2 Average increased +5.41% (+9.75% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index [&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-55940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55940","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=55940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55941,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55940\/revisions\/55941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}