{"id":21762,"date":"2011-04-08T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2011-04-08T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:00:53","slug":"mutual-funds-pull-from-hedge-fund-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/mutual-funds-pull-from-hedge-fund-playbook.html","title":{"rendered":"Mutual funds pull from hedge-fund playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today &#8211; Given our chaotic times, you may be wondering how to protect your investments against some sudden, unforeseen event: a stock market meltdown, a crisis in the banking system or an invasion of Venusian brain garglers.<\/p>\n<p>In finance, a hedge is a strategy designed to offset certain risks \u2014 hence the phrase \u201chedging your bets.\u201d\u00a0If we define risk as losing money, then a simple hedging strategy for a stock portfolio is diversification: Buy other investments, such as gold, government bonds or cash, whose value doesn\u2019t rise and fall in lockstep with the stock market.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/perfi\/columnist\/waggon\/2011-04-07-make-hedge-fund-techniques-work-for-you.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today &#8211; Given our chaotic times, you may be wondering how to protect your investments against some sudden, unforeseen event: a stock market meltdown, a crisis in the banking system or an invasion of Venusian brain garglers. In finance, [&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-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","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=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21763,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions\/21763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}