{"id":10914,"date":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-head-for-bumper-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-funds-head-for-bumper-first-half.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds head for bumper first half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Times Online &#8211; Hedge funds are on course to deliver their best first-half performance in a  decade, as investors renew their faith in the sector in the wake of last  year&#8217;s calamitous losses.  <\/p>\n<p> Hedge funds worldwide returned 5.63 per cent to their investors in the year to  last Thursday, according to Hedge Fund Research (HFR), the Chicago-based  research firm that compiles daily statistics on performance.  <\/p>\n<p> Strategies that predict big directional market moves made profits of 12.52 per  cent over the period as equity markets in Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific  posted strong gains and liquidity gradually returned to the credit markets.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article6600551.ece\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Hedge funds are on course to deliver their best first-half performance in a decade, as investors renew their faith in the sector in the wake of last year&#8217;s calamitous losses. Hedge funds worldwide returned 5.63 per cent [&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":[3017,4520,1412,5309,13602,11708,4504,8836,449,129,13601,123,13603],"class_list":["post-10914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-pacific","tag-credit-markets","tag-decade","tag-europe","tag-faith","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investors","tag-last-thursday","tag-liquidity","tag-losses","tag-performance-strategies","tag-profits","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914","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=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}