{"id":25873,"date":"2011-11-07T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25873"},"modified":"2011-11-07T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:05:15","slug":"europes-tremors-threaten-not-so-hedged-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/europes-tremors-threaten-not-so-hedged-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s tremors threaten not-so-hedged funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancial News &#8211; Hedge funds are having a lousy sovereign-debt crisis. The average fund has failed to protect investors&#8217; capital, losing more than 5% of its value this year, according to Hedge Fund Research. Event-driven, macro and market-neutral strategies are all down for the year, with short-biased funds a rare, and obvious, exception.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Sure, Europe&#8217;s main equity indexes are down 5% to 20%, but investing in an S&amp;P 500 index tracker would have delivered better returns. While hedge funds are still seeing net inflows, their pitch to investors is looking weaker and weaker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/story\/2011-11-07\/europes-tremors-threaten-not-so-hedged-funds?mod=promos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancial News &#8211; Hedge funds are having a lousy sovereign-debt crisis. The average fund has failed to protect investors&#8217; capital, losing more than 5% of its value this year, according to Hedge Fund Research. Event-driven, macro and market-neutral strategies are [&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-25873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873","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=25873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25874,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions\/25874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}