{"id":10133,"date":"2009-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"inside-the-worlds-biggest-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/inside-the-worlds-biggest-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Inside the world&#8217;s biggest hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune Magazine &#8211;&nbsp;Is the current downturn merely a severe slump, or are we facing a second coming of the Great Depression? That&#8217;s the question everyone is asking these days. But Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and manager of what is now the world&#8217;s biggest hedge fund, has been preparing to answer it for eight years. <\/p>\n<p>In 2001 he had his investment team build a &quot;depression gauge&quot; into the firm&#8217;s computer system, line by line in the code, to adjust the portfolio&#8217;s strategy and risk profile if the economy ever entered a massive deleveraging period &#8211; the kind of multiyear process that ricocheted through the world economy in the 1930s and that has eviscerated markets periodically through the ages. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/03\/18\/news\/economy\/okeefe_bridgewater.fortune\/index.htm?postversion=2009031905\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune Magazine &#8211;&nbsp;Is the current downturn merely a severe slump, or are we facing a second coming of the Great Depression? That&#8217;s the question everyone is asking these days. But Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and manager of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4835,1119,9234,1848,9232,3511,9235,6307,5268,3707,641,9233,4451,3791],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1930s","tag-bridgewater-associates","tag-computer-system","tag-downturn","tag-eviscerated","tag-fortune-magazine","tag-gauge","tag-great-depression","tag-investment-team","tag-ray-dalio","tag-risk-profile","tag-second-coming","tag-slump","tag-world-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}