{"id":11794,"date":"2009-09-10T05:42:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2009-09-10T05:42:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:42:26","slug":"2009-performance-hedge-funds-vs-mutual-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/2009-performance-hedge-funds-vs-mutual-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"2009 Performance: Hedge Funds vs. Mutual Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Convertible and equity arbitrage strategies have the winning performance among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge funds<\/a> so far this year. Latin American stock funds lead the way for mutual funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500-stock index returned 15% year to date through Aug. 31. For the same period, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 10.8%, the Russel 2000 +15.8%, the Nasdaq Composite\u00a0 +28.3%, the MSCI EAFE +21.1%, and the MSCI Emerging Markets index +50.5%.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/search\/hedge+funds\/SIG=13i2qrrcp\/*http%3A\/\/www.businessweek.com\/investing\/insights\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/2009_performanc.html?campaign_id=rss_null\">Read Complete Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Convertible and equity arbitrage strategies have the winning performance among hedge funds so far this year. Latin American stock funds lead the way for mutual funds. The Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500-stock index returned 15% year to date through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15778,4],"tags":[6739,11708,4710],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-ideas","category-syndicated","tag-arbitrage-strategies","tag-hedge-funds","tag-mutual-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11800,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions\/11800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}