{"id":6035,"date":"2007-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-have-best-april-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2007\/hedge-funds-have-best-april-since-1999.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds have best April since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  MarketWatch- Hedge funds generated their biggest gains in more than a year in April as stock markets surged, especially in emerging markets. However, some managers are becoming more cautious as  benchmark equity indexes hit records.<\/p>\n<p>  An index compiled by Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research climbed 2.23% in April, leaving it up 5.14% so far in 2007. Another run by Hennessee Group advanced 1.92% last month, leaving it with a  year-to-date gain of 5.44%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p\">  Funds tracked by HedgeFund.net gained 2.61% last month. That was the best April performance since 1999, the industry database operator noted. It was also the biggest monthly gain since January  2006. So far this year, HedgeFund.net&#8217;s main index is up 5.25%.<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">  A lot of the gains were driven by surging stock markets in April. The benchmark Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index advanced 4.3%, its best performance since December 2003. Emerging market indexes  climbed even faster, after sharp declines earlier this year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">  Emerging markets hedge funds performed the best in April. Managers focused on Asia returned 7.72% on average, according to HFR.<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">  Still, there were signs that some managers are becoming more cautious. The performance of equity long\/short hedge funds lagged the S&amp;P 500 considerably in April, suggesting managers have  increased short positions to protect themselves from any market downturn.<\/div>\n<p>  <strong><a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/2-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/hedge-funds-have-best-april\/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257BD078C2B5-A352-4C6E-B075-4818CDEC028B%257D&amp;cid=1116162255&amp;ei=s4FBRvXRKp3C0gHXo-G4Dw\">  Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch- Hedge funds generated their biggest gains in more than a year in April as stock markets surged, especially in emerging markets. However, some managers are becoming more cautious as benchmark equity indexes hit records. An index compiled by Chicago-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}