{"id":12708,"date":"2009-10-29T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T11:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2009-10-29T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T11:38:38","slug":"exotic-bets-to-hedge-a-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/exotic-bets-to-hedge-a-portfolio.html","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Bets to Hedge a Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; When the global markets plummeted after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September last year, a handful of alternative investments remained stable or even made money for investors. Among them were \u201cmanaged futures,\u201d which are not for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Managed futures use computer-driven trading models that can go either long \u2014 that is, betting on rising prices \u2014 or short, betting that prices will fall, in a variety of futures contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, an individual investor typically needs to have a net worth of at least $1 million or a certain level of income to put money into anything regarded as an alternative investment, which are generally less liquid and more risky than conventional investments like stocks and bonds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/29\/your-money\/stocks-and-bonds\/29FUND.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; When the global markets plummeted after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September last year, a handful of alternative investments remained stable or even made money for investors. Among them were \u201cmanaged futures,\u201d which are not for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","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=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}