{"id":23920,"date":"2011-08-08T04:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T08:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23920"},"modified":"2011-08-08T04:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T08:06:49","slug":"proshares-launches-etf-as-alternative-to-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/proshares-launches-etf-as-alternative-to-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"ProShares launches ETF as alternative to hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CPI &#8211; ProShares has launched the ProShares Hedge Replication ETF. HDG\u2019s benchmark is based on Merrill Lynch\u2019s hedge fund replication model.<\/p>\n<p>HDG is attempting to provide the risk\/return characteristics of a broad universe of hedge funds without many of the challenges of hedge fund investing. Historically, a broad universe of hedge funds, as measured by the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, has had attractive risk-adjusted returns relative to equities. However, there are many deterrents to investing in hedge funds, such as illiquidity, limited transparency and high fees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpifinancial.net\/v2\/News.aspx?v=1&amp;aid=8960&amp;sec=Alternative%20Investments\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPI &#8211; ProShares has launched the ProShares Hedge Replication ETF. HDG\u2019s benchmark is based on Merrill Lynch\u2019s hedge fund replication model. HDG is attempting to provide the risk\/return characteristics of a broad universe of hedge funds without many of the [&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-23920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920","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=23920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23922,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions\/23922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}