{"id":2703,"date":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-here-stay-research-director-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2004\/hedge-funds-here-stay-research-director-suggests.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds are here to stay Research director suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Hedge funds are here to stay according to Stephen van Eyk, the managing director of Van Eyk Research Company. According to him, despite all the discursion andnegative publicity, hedge funds continue to make their way into the realm of increasing number of trustees, individual investors, research houses, and into the radars of investment advisers.<\/p>\n<p>  According to Eyk, hedge funds have delivered absolute returns to its investors for the past three and half years. This period, according to him, is the second longest in history apart from the  Great Depression, during which defensive investment portfolios have consecutively over performed growth portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>  The managing director of Eyk Research said, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdWith investors having gone through this period, it\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds certainly increased investor appetite for more defensive assets, as they\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdre starting to think that  this market behavior is normal and that equities are never going to go up again, so you\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdre seeing more interest in hedge funds, private equity and basically anything that isn\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdt associated with  traditional liquid markets.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/p>\n<p>  Eyk said that there is no evidence that even when markets recover for a sustained period of time, that hedge fund investors will desert hedge funds. Eyk added, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdI don\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdt think markets are going to  do so well that people will abandon hedge funds, as they offer diversification and provide a portfolio with lower volatility, or Sharpe ratio.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/p>\n<p>  Eyk maintained that hedge funds would always have a place in investment portfolios. For one thing, their role for portfolio diversification will always be in demand, but he also thinks that with  time, the rate at which they attract assets will ultimately slow down.<\/p>\n<p>  Paul Oranika<br \/>  Editor-in-Chief<br \/>  HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: Editor@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>  HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Hedge funds are here to stay according to Stephen van Eyk, the managing director of Van Eyk Research Company. According to him, despite all the discursion andnegative publicity, hedge funds continue to make their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}