{"id":15756,"date":"2010-05-20T05:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15756"},"modified":"2010-05-20T05:58:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:58:54","slug":"the-problem-with-absolute-return-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/the-problem-with-absolute-return-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Absolute Return Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Mutual fund outfits are selling the glamour and mystique of hedge fund strategies. You&#8217;d be better off with a plain old balanced fund.<\/p>\n<p>These are trying times for mutual fund managers. In the wake of the biggest stock market plunge in generations, investors yanked $1.6 trillion out of equity funds over the past 24 months, according to the Investment Company Institute. Much of it went into far less lucrative bond or money market funds or&#8211;horror of horrors&#8211;into government-insured bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2010\/0607\/investing-mutual-fund-etf-absolute-return-behind-velvet-rope.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Mutual fund outfits are selling the glamour and mystique of hedge fund strategies. You&#8217;d be better off with a plain old balanced fund. These are trying times for mutual fund managers. In the wake of the biggest stock [&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-15756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756","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=15756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15757,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756\/revisions\/15757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}