Two out six of IndexIQ’s proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indices recorded positive performance in January.
The IQ Hedge Market Neutral Index led the way with a return of 0.33 per cent followed by the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index at 0.13 per cent.
The month’s biggest loser was the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index which was down 2.83 per cent for the month, while the IQ Hedge Event Driven Index (-2.42 per cent), the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Index (-1.13 per cent), and the IQ Hedge Global Macro Index (-1.03 per cent), also finished the month in negative territory.
Designed as investable benchmarks that replicate the performance characteristics of sophisticated hedge fund strategies, the IQ Hedge Indexes comprise the first family of investable benchmark indexes covering hedge fund replication/alternative beta strategies.
