{"id":51873,"date":"2016-03-17T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51873"},"modified":"2016-03-17T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:51:39","slug":"the-best-and-worst-of-february-longshort-equity-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/the-best-and-worst-of-february-longshort-equity-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best and Worst of February: Long\/Short Equity Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) Long\/short equity mutual funds and ETFs suffered another month of losses in February, falling 0.33% in the aggregate versus a drop in the S&#038;P 500 Index of 0.13%. Of the universe of 179 funds with a full month of performance in February, only 65 managed to post monthly gains, but there were some particularly strong standouts. Nevertheless, the category saw total outflows of $399 million over the month and more than $3.9 billion for the year ending February 29, 2015. Will long\/short equity funds be able to rebound and stem the outflows, or will the category continue to lose assets in March? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyalts.com\/the-best-and-worst-of-february-long-short-equity\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) Long\/short equity mutual funds and ETFs suffered another month of losses in February, falling 0.33% in the aggregate versus a drop in the S&#038;P 500 Index of 0.13%. Of the universe of 179 funds with a full month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51874,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51873\/revisions\/51874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}