A&P Emerging Manager Index returned 1.10% for April 2017, 4.68% YTD

Hedge funds posted another positive performance for April, with their fourth consecutive month of gains so far this year. Global financial markets also recorded gains, largely driven by optimism over the European election results in the Netherlands and France.

The APEM index© produced another strong performance of 1.10% for April, as with most developed equity markets, with the S&P 500 returning 0.91% and the Eurekahedge Fund Index posting an estimated 0.64%.

The APEM index© is an equally weighted index of hedge funds managed and advised by emerging asset managers. It is designed to offer investors, who have a particular interest in early stage hedge fund investing, an effective research and benchmarking tool and to provide better visibility to asset managers who have launched new hedge fund investment products.

Founded in 2011, www.advisorsandpartners.co.ukAdvisors & Partners LLP (A&P) is an independent, privately held, London-based Company providing financial, advisory and business development services to institutional investors, asset managers and financial institutions globally.

Investors avoid emerging private real estate managers

According to Preqin, a research house, emerging private real estate fund managersare finding the fundraising environment increasingly difficult, despite posting higher median returns than their more experienced counterparts in every vintage year since 2004.

Managers raising their first or second private real estate fund accounted for just over a quarter of funds closed in 2016, and just a tenth of the capita......................

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This article was published in Opalesque's New Managers a top-down monthly analysis, news and research publication on the global emerging manager space.