On Thursday, November 7th-the fifth business day of the month-Hedge Fund Research (HFR) will publish the first October performance numbers for their non-investable indices. Normally, these figures represent 25%-35% of index constituents and provide an approximation of the return for each respective index. Commerce Asset Management's estimate for the HFRI Equity Hedge (Total) Index return to be published this Thursday is 2.00% (+/- 0.15%).
The September estimate CAM provided for the HFRI Equity Hedge (Total) Index was 2.96% (+/- 0.15%). While the first number published by HFR (on October 7th) was 2.61%, the most recent figure (as of November 1st) is 2.80%.
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