New York (HedgeCo.net) – The UCITS Alternative Index Blue Chip is up 0.25% this week, bringing its month to date performance to 1.32%. Macro and Emerging Markets are the best weekly performers, with respective gains of 0.61% and 0.57%. Event-Driven and Commodities, down -0.31% and -0.26%, are the main detractors. So far in February, only CTA (-0.50%) and Volatility (-0.29%) are down.

The UAIX Volatility and UAIX Long/Short Equity are up 0.32% and 0.24% this week, while the UAIX CTA, UAIX Commodities and UAIX Fixed Income post losses. On a year to date basis all UAIX are positive. In particular, Long/Short Equity is up 3.70% and Volatility is up 3.09%

The UCITS Alternative Index series is the industry’s leading benchmark for the UCITS hedge funds universe. The series of indices track the performance of both global and strategy specific UCITS hedge funds. Index rules and statistics are accessible on the UCITS