{"id":7118,"date":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-decline-in-jan-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/hedge-funds-decline-in-jan-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Decline in January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index (GGHFI), fell -2.44% in January amid severe declines in global equity markets such as the S&amp;P 500, MSCI World Equity, and FTSE 100 indices. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 79% of hedge funds outperformed the S&amp;P 500, with 33% ending the month in positive territory. <\/p>\n<p>Margaret Gilbert, Managing Director of GGHFI said, &quot;Despite January being hedge funds&rsquo; weakest month since July 2002, hedge funds fell far less than equities&#8230;.. This &lsquo;downside protection&rsquo; is particularly apparent over the last twelve months with hedge funds returning +7.14%, outperforming the S&amp;P 500 by +9.45% during this period.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For January, all four hedge fund strategy groups outperformed the S&amp;P 500, according to the report. Directional Trading ended up +0.81%, while dedicated Short Sellers were the stellar performers, up +6.99%. January&rsquo;s Index currently includes 1,011 constituent funds. <\/p>\n<p>Greenwich Alternative Investments, LLC manages one of the world&#8217;s largest hedge fund databases and is a provider of hedge fund indices, asset management services and research to institutional investors worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"..\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/><strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites.<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index (GGHFI), fell -2.44% in January amid severe declines in global equity markets such as the S&amp;P 500, MSCI World Equity, and FTSE 100 indices. Meanwhile, 79% of hedge funds outperformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}