{"id":27327,"date":"2012-02-09T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27327"},"modified":"2012-02-09T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:14:21","slug":"longshort-hedge-funds-to-gain-from-correlation-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/longshort-hedge-funds-to-gain-from-correlation-decline.html","title":{"rendered":"Long\/Short Hedge Funds To Gain From Correlation Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Stock correlation within sectors has dropped significantly this year as markets have rallied, providing a boon for long\/short equities managers who buy and sell companies based on fundamental analysis of their individual merits.<\/p>\n<p>Giles Worthington, a portfolio manager at RiverCrest Capital, said: &#8220;Correlations are falling with quite a powerful force and diversity in stock returns is rising. This is good news for stock-pickers as once again investors are considering the difference between a high-quality and a low-quality company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20120209-705607.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Stock correlation within sectors has dropped significantly this year as markets have rallied, providing a boon for long\/short equities managers who buy and sell companies based on fundamental analysis of their individual merits. Giles Worthington, a portfolio manager [&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-27327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327","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=27327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27328,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions\/27328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}