{"id":22442,"date":"2011-05-13T06:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2011-05-13T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:54:05","slug":"hedge-fund-managers-ponder-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/hedge-fund-managers-ponder-armageddon.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund managers ponder Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch &#8211; A collapse of the banking system, the demise of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency, another oil shock, a new round of junk-bond defaults and a meltdown in Japan\u2019s bond market were among the doomsday scenarios explored by hedge-fund managers at a conference in Las Vegas Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2008 financial crisis, many hedge funds have added trades that could protect against losses from big, unexpected events \u2014 now known as black swans, a term coined by investor Nassim Taleb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/hedge-fund-managers-ponder-armageddon-2011-05-12?link=MW_latest_news\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch &#8211; A collapse of the banking system, the demise of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency, another oil shock, a new round of junk-bond defaults and a meltdown in Japan\u2019s bond market were among the doomsday scenarios explored [&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-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442","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=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22443,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}