{"id":19930,"date":"2011-01-12T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2011-01-12T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:59:28","slug":"when-hedge-funds-are-too-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/when-hedge-funds-are-too-boring.html","title":{"rendered":"When hedge funds are too boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters \u00a0&#8211; Laurence Fletcher reports today on rich individuals with high risk appetites who are getting frustrated with modest hedge fund returns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many rich people were attracted to hedge funds by stories of George Soros\u2019s $1 billion profit from his speculative attack on the Bank of England or John Paulson\u2019s $3.7 billion earnings in 2007 betting on the subprime meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>But institutions \u2014 who now account for over half of all hedge fund assets \u2014 often prefer lower-risk funds, targeting single-digit or low double-digit gains\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2011\/01\/11\/when-hedge-funds-are-too-boring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters \u00a0&#8211; Laurence Fletcher reports today on rich individuals with high risk appetites who are getting frustrated with modest hedge fund returns: Many rich people were attracted to hedge funds by stories of George Soros\u2019s $1 billion profit from his [&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-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","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=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19931,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}