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Matthias Knab, Opalesque:

The Alternative UCITS market keeps showing strong growth. In January 2017, financial technology and consulting firm LUXHEDGE recorded a net inflow of 5.2 bn EUR in Assets under Management with the strongest rise occurring in Fixed Income Arbitrage (+2.8 bn EUR), Global Macro (+0.9 bn EUR) and Multi-Strategy (+0.8 bn EUR) funds. The relatively smaller segment of Volatility Arbitrage funds was the only one to show a declining AUM in January: -0.4 bn EUR.

The LuxHedge Alternative UCITS indices held up well across almost all strategy styles with the LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index increasing +0.25% during January 2017. The largest gain was recorded by the Event Driven funds as measured by the Event Driven UCITS Index (+1.47%). Also Multi-Strategy (+1.11%) and Long/Short (+0.93%) Indices posted a strong gain for the second month in a row.

The Commodity Arbitrage UCITS index, which is the smallest category, posted another loss last month with -0.72%. Also Volatility Arbitrage (-0.30%), Global Macro (-0.22%) and CTA/Managed Futures (-0.15%) lost some ground in January.

LUXHEDGE is a financial technology and consulting firm with a focus on the fast-growing universe of Alternative UCITS funds. We specialize in market analysis, asset allocation, fund selection and are a premier independent provider of Alternative UCITS indices.

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