{"id":23282,"date":"2011-06-30T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2011-06-30T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:08:27","slug":"new-investment-strategy-preparing-for-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/new-investment-strategy-preparing-for-end-times.html","title":{"rendered":"New Investment Strategy: Preparing for End Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment professionals have a new pitch: The sky could soon be falling.<\/p>\n<p>While Greece took a step back from the brink on Wednesday, the possibility of a default remains a fear. Europe\u2019s debt crisis, as well as natural disasters and political uprisings, are prompting investors both big and small to seek out investments that promise to protect their portfolios in the event of economic Armageddon.<\/p>\n<p>Worried that Greece could go belly up? So-called black swan funds \u2014 named for rare and unexpected events \u2014 offer a way to profit in the event of a market collapse. Think a slowdown in the United States or China could set off a global economic crisis? New exchange-traded funds are popping up to help pad investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/29\/a-new-investment-strategy-preparing-for-end-times\/\">Read Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment professionals have a new pitch: The sky could soon be falling. While Greece took a step back from the brink on Wednesday, the possibility of a default remains a fear. Europe\u2019s debt crisis, as well as natural disasters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23283,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions\/23283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}