{"id":24434,"date":"2011-09-01T01:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2011-09-01T01:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:14:42","slug":"pensions-using-hedge-funds-dont-always-know-risks-gao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/pensions-using-hedge-funds-dont-always-know-risks-gao.html","title":{"rendered":"Pensions using hedge funds don&#8217;t always know risks: GAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; More and more U.S. pension plans are investing in hedge funds, even though the plans&#8217; administrators struggle to understand what is in the funds or their true exposure to risk, a federal auditor said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As companies move to defined contribution plans, such as 401-ks, states and local governments have come to dominate the pension world. They rely heavily on returns for their investments to pay benefits to retirees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/31\/us-usa-states-pensions-gao-idUSTRE77U5V820110831\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; More and more U.S. pension plans are investing in hedge funds, even though the plans&#8217; administrators struggle to understand what is in the funds or their true exposure to risk, a federal auditor said on Wednesday. As companies [&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-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434","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=24434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24435,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions\/24435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}