{"id":23979,"date":"2011-08-10T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23979"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:34:50","slug":"a-choice-between-risk-and-return-lipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/a-choice-between-risk-and-return-lipper.html","title":{"rendered":"A choice between risk and return? &#8211; Lipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds have delivered decent risk-return results over the past ten years. And as transparency and liquidity increased post-credit crisis, they have regained their appeal as providers of absolute return opportunities for investors. In addition, an increasing lack of market visibility globally has played to hedge funds&#8217; supposed strengths, with total industry assets under management now exceeding the $2 trillion, according to Hedge Fund Research.<\/p>\n<p>There is a divide, however, with the industry split between single hedge funds &#8212; totaling more than 11,000 in the Lipper database &#8212; and some 867 funds of hedge funds (FoHFs). The general perception is that single-manager hedge funds are the more risky investment and to cushion that risk, some investors prefer to diversify their portfolio by investing in FoHFs instead. But is it worth it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/10\/lipper-column-idUSL6E7J80JU20110810\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds have delivered decent risk-return results over the past ten years. And as transparency and liquidity increased post-credit crisis, they have regained their appeal as providers of absolute return opportunities for investors. In addition, an increasing lack [&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-23979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979","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=23979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23980,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}