{"id":10842,"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-fund-investors-regain-whip-hand-after-2008s-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-fund-investors-regain-whip-hand-after-2008s-losses.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Investors Regain \u2018Whip Hand\u2019 After 2008\u2019s Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund managers gathering in Monaco this week said they have work to do to regain investors&rsquo; confidence after the industry&rsquo;s record losses last year.             <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to prove as an industry that we can provide absolute returns again,&rdquo; Pierre Lagrange, co-founder of hedge fund GLG Partners Inc., told some of the 750 delegates at the GAIM International hedge fund conference in Monte Carlo. &ldquo;We have to show that in the next year or two we can strike back.&rdquo;     <\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds tumbled 19 percent in 2008, the worst year since Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. began keeping records almost two decades ago, prompting investors to pull money, and funds to shut or impose limits on withdrawals. Funds have started to rebound this year, rising 9.4 percent through May, according to the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aLY07XMueX7I\" target=\"_blank\" title=\" Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund managers gathering in Monaco this week said they have work to do to regain investors&rsquo; confidence after the industry&rsquo;s record losses last year. &ldquo;We have to prove as an industry that we can provide absolute returns [&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":[574,4565,816,4712,1038,10763,11708,2222,16278,4504,9695,10989,48,13187,5399,4654,4292],"class_list":["post-10842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-returns","tag-co-founder","tag-composite-index","tag-confidence","tag-decades","tag-delegates","tag-hedge-funds","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-hedge-fund-research","tag-investors","tag-lagrange","tag-monaco","tag-money","tag-monte-carlo","tag-partners-inc","tag-record-losses","tag-withdrawals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842","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=10842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}