{"id":16168,"date":"2010-06-11T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16168"},"modified":"2010-06-11T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:50:00","slug":"ex-lehman-traders%e2%80%99-fund-had-best-month-by-shorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/ex-lehman-traders%e2%80%99-fund-had-best-month-by-shorting.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lehman Traders\u2019 Fund Had Best Month by Shorting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Omnix Multi-Strategy Fund, run by two  former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. traders, returned 6 percent in May,  when hedge funds globally posted the worst month since 2008, by placing  more bearish than bullish bets.<\/p>\n<p>The Asia-Pacific-focused fund\u2019s net-short  position, the difference between short and long investments, peaked at  50 percent of its almost $25 million assets under management in May,  said Paul Penkett, 39, Omnix\u2019s Hong Kong-based co-founder and chief  investment officer. The Eurekahedge Asian Hedge Fund Index is estimated  to have dropped 4.2 percent during the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-11\/ex-lehman-traders-fund-had-best-month-by-shorting-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Omnix Multi-Strategy Fund, run by two former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. traders, returned 6 percent in May, when hedge funds globally posted the worst month since 2008, by placing more bearish than bullish bets. The Asia-Pacific-focused fund\u2019s net-short [&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-16168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168","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=16168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16170,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions\/16170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}