{"id":10840,"date":"2009-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-crawl-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-funds-crawl-back-to-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds crawl back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are crawling back to life after a turbulent 2008 that has almost halved their assets, and fewer but stronger survivors are set to regain their leverage to chase bargains in a less competitive environment.       <\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds, which manage their portfolios aggressively with various advanced strategies including derivatives to gain higher returns, suffered double-digit losses last year after global stocks and commodities tumbled because of the credit crisis.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of client redemptions, the amount of investor capital managed by single-manager hedge funds might have halved to close to $1 trillion by mid-2009 from the 2008 peak of $2 trillion (1.2 trillion pounds), according to the European Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgeFundsNews\/idUSLNE55H04320090618\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are crawling back to life after a turbulent 2008 that has almost halved their assets, and fewer but stronger survivors are set to regain their leverage to chase bargains in a less competitive environment. Hedge funds, [&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":[4439,6713,13178,1479,5149,76,11708,13177,1626,129,5987,4325,4326,13176,6024,236],"class_list":["post-10840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-assets","tag-bargains","tag-competitive-environment","tag-credit-crisis","tag-derivatives","tag-global-stocks","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investor-capital","tag-leverage","tag-losses","tag-portfolios","tag-redemptions","tag-reuters","tag-stocks-and-commodities","tag-survivors","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840","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=10840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}