{"id":16385,"date":"2010-06-24T07:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16385"},"modified":"2010-06-24T07:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:34:41","slug":"macro-hedge-funds-add-2-5-billion-as-global-trades-proliferate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/macro-hedge-funds-add-2-5-billion-as-global-trades-proliferate.html","title":{"rendered":"Macro Hedge Funds Add $2.5 Billion as Global Trades Proliferate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds that bet on economic trends  are attracting cash at almost double last year\u2019s pace as they seek to  profit from events such as Europe\u2019s sovereign debt crisis and China\u2019s  decision to let the yuan trade more freely.<\/p>\n<p>So-called macro funds pulled in $2.5 billion  through April, compared with $4 billion in all of 2009, according to  researcher BarclayHedge Ltd. of Fairfield, Iowa. The category had the  second-highest average returns after fixed-income funds in the past 36  months, even after losing 1.2 percent in May, data from Chicago-based  Hedge Fund Research Inc. show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-24\/macro-hedge-funds-add-2-5-billion-as-global-trades-proliferate.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds that bet on economic trends are attracting cash at almost double last year\u2019s pace as they seek to profit from events such as Europe\u2019s sovereign debt crisis and China\u2019s decision to let the yuan trade more [&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-16385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385","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=16385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16386,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions\/16386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}