{"id":26772,"date":"2012-01-06T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26772"},"modified":"2012-01-06T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:14:54","slug":"hedge-funds-fell-4-9-in-2011-as-european-debt-crisis-hurt-global-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2012\/hedge-funds-fell-4-9-in-2011-as-european-debt-crisis-hurt-global-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Fell 4.9% in 2011 as European Debt Crisis Hurt Global Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg: Hedge funds  fell 4.9 percent last year as global stock markets slumped amid fears that the European sovereign-debt crisis would spread and managers struggled with increased market volatility.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomberg aggregate hedge-fund index (BBHFUNDS) dropped 0.9 percent in December, with long-short equity and multistrategy (BBHFMLTI) funds falling. Macro funds, which bet on global economic trends, rose last month and declined in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManagers are probably happy 2011 is behind them,\u201d said Emma Sugarman, global head of capital introduction at BNP Paribas SA in New York , which helps hedge funds meet clients. \u201cThe notion of absolute return has changed. In the past, some hedge funds were sold as absolute return, meaning they would always generate a positive return, and clearly that has not been possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-05\/hedge-funds-fell-4-9-in-2011-as-europe-debt-crisis-hurt-global-stocks.html\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg: Hedge funds fell 4.9 percent last year as global stock markets slumped amid fears that the European sovereign-debt crisis would spread and managers struggled with increased market volatility. The Bloomberg aggregate hedge-fund index (BBHFUNDS) dropped 0.9 percent in December, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26774,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions\/26774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}