{"id":24189,"date":"2011-08-19T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24189"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:24:24","slug":"a-difficult-year-for-many-hedge-funds-may-prove-a-fatal-one-for-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/a-difficult-year-for-many-hedge-funds-may-prove-a-fatal-one-for-some.html","title":{"rendered":"A difficult year for many hedge funds may prove a fatal one for some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; With bold promises of strong returns in good times and bad, hedge funds have seduced many an investor. But as often happens when a courtship develops into something more serious, blind love has been followed by a bitter let-down. Hedge funds first disappointed investors en masse in 2008, when the average fund fell by 19%. Since then they have struggled to beat the market (see chart). This year performance has continued to be lacklustre. The hedge-fund industry needs to produce outsize returns for the rest of 2011 if it is to restore its reputation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21526326\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; With bold promises of strong returns in good times and bad, hedge funds have seduced many an investor. But as often happens when a courtship develops into something more serious, blind love has been followed by a [&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-24189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189","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=24189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24190,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions\/24190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}