{"id":27443,"date":"2012-02-16T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27443"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:43:33","slug":"hedge-funds-forgiven-for-slump-by-insurers-shunning-low-yield-bond-wagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/hedge-funds-forgiven-for-slump-by-insurers-shunning-low-yield-bond-wagers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Forgiven for Slump by Insurers Shunning Low-Yield Bond Wagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds are being spared punishment for their 2011 performance as insurers that suffered last year with lower-than-expected returns decide they won\u2019t be able to do much better in the bond market.<\/p>\n<p>Policyholder-owned insurer FM Global plans to boost the allocation to hedge funds in its $10.5 billion portfolio this year, after the bets \u201cdidn\u2019t really deliver too well\u201d in 2011, said Paul LaFleche, the company\u2019s senior vice president of investments. The funds provide diversification and historically had attractive returns, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-16\/hedge-funds-forgiven-for-slump-by-insurers-shunning-low-yield-bond-wagers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds are being spared punishment for their 2011 performance as insurers that suffered last year with lower-than-expected returns decide they won\u2019t be able to do much better in the bond market. Policyholder-owned insurer FM Global plans to [&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-27443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27443","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=27443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27444,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27443\/revisions\/27444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}