{"id":27038,"date":"2012-01-24T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27038"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:05:22","slug":"chasing-the-mirage-of-hedge-fund-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2012\/chasing-the-mirage-of-hedge-fund-returns.html","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Mirage of Hedge Fund Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Hedge funds had another rocky year in 2011, down 6.4%, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse All Hedge Index. And yet industry assets under management have climbed back to $2 trillion, having reached $2.1 trillion in 2007 before plummeting in the 2008 market crash.<\/p>\n<p>After reading Simon Lack\u2019s just-published\u00a0<em>The Hedge Fund Mirage\u00a0<\/em>(John Wiley &amp; Sons), one wonders why the assets continue to flow in. Here\u2019s how the book begins: \u201cIf all the money that\u2019s ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/greggfisher\/2012\/01\/23\/chasing-the-mirage-of-hedge-fund-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Hedge funds had another rocky year in 2011, down 6.4%, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse All Hedge Index. And yet industry assets under management have climbed back to $2 trillion, having reached $2.1 trillion in [&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-27038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038","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=27038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27040,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions\/27040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}