{"id":68093,"date":"2019-02-22T00:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68093"},"modified":"2019-02-22T00:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:55:26","slug":"hedge-funds-off-to-a-strong-start-barclay-hedge-fund-index-climbs-3-88-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2019\/hedge-funds-off-to-a-strong-start-barclay-hedge-fund-index-climbs-3-88-in-january.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds off to a strong start &#8211; Barclay Hedge Fund Index climbs 3.88% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Opalesque) Investor optimism spurred by a variety of favorable conditions pushed hedge funds to a solid start in 2019 with a 3.88% return in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. All of Barclay&#8217;s 31 hedge fund indices ended the month with gains. By comparison, the S&#038;P 500 Total Return Index climbed to 8.01% in January. Strong stock market results and relief from the equity market volatility of recent months clearly contributed to hedge funds&#8217; positive performance in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/industry-updates\/5576\/hedge_funds_off_to_a_strong_start557.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Investor optimism spurred by a variety of favorable conditions pushed hedge funds to a solid start in 2019 with a 3.88% return in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. [&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-68093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68093","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=68093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68094,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68093\/revisions\/68094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}