{"id":15873,"date":"2010-05-27T05:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15873"},"modified":"2010-05-27T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:47:41","slug":"sophisticated-investors-and-the-hedge-funds-they-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/sophisticated-investors-and-the-hedge-funds-they-love.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sophisticated&#8217; Investors and the Hedge Funds They Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The market tumult of the last two years has taught us something about these so-called &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; investors we&#8217;re hearing so much about these days: if we didn&#8217;t know they were so smart, most of them could easily be mistaken for a bunch of dummies.<\/p>\n<p>To be a sophisticated investor is not unlike becoming knighted. Loosely, a sophisticated investor is anyone \u2013 individual or institution \u2013 with a lot of cash who is anointed to play at Wall Street&#8217;s high-rollers table. Regulators call them &#8220;accredited.&#8221; Sophisticated or accredited investors know the rules and the game, maybe they have their own research arms or pay third parties to do their research. Maybe not. It&#8217;s an exclusive club that allows anyone with a net worth of $1 million or more to play, and one that puts a greater liability on the investor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704717004575269091785412872.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The market tumult of the last two years has taught us something about these so-called &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; investors we&#8217;re hearing so much about these days: if we didn&#8217;t know they were so smart, most of them could easily be [&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-15873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873","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=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}