{"id":13162,"date":"2009-11-30T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13162"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:40:48","slug":"etf-aims-to-be-hedge-fund-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2009\/etf-aims-to-be-hedge-fund-for-the-masses.html","title":{"rendered":"ETF Aims To Be Hedge Fund For The Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A new exchange-traded fund promises to mimic hedge-fund strategies in an easily traded and lower-fee vehicle, but investors may want to see how this second-generation ETF fares in the real world before rushing in.<\/p>\n<p>IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), which listed on the NYSE Arca earlier this month, is one in a growing field of ETFs that blur the lines between active and passive management. It follows a rules-based index that approximates a merger-arbitrage strategy employed by some hedge funds and mutual funds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20091130-705209.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A new exchange-traded fund promises to mimic hedge-fund strategies in an easily traded and lower-fee vehicle, but investors may want to see how this second-generation ETF fares in the real world before rushing in. IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage [&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-13162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162","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=13162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}