{"id":28450,"date":"2012-04-13T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28450"},"modified":"2012-04-13T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:52:04","slug":"despite-their-rep-hedge-funds-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/despite-their-rep-hedge-funds-disappoint.html","title":{"rendered":"Despite their rep, hedge funds disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS &#8211; A truly amazing phenomenon is the continued popularity of hedge funds, especially among high net worth investors. Despite the historical evidence on their lousy performance (as presented in my book &#8220;The Quest for Alpha&#8221;), hedge funds continue to attract great attention.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of hype and hope, by contrast, we continue to provide you with something more reliable to evaluate how these funds have fared &#8212; evidence. The table below presents the returns of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index and compares it to the performance of various stock and bond indexes, both for the period 2003-2011 and for the first quarter of 2012. We&#8217;ll do another review after each quarter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-500395_162-57410207\/despite-their-rep-hedge-funds-disappoint\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS &#8211; A truly amazing phenomenon is the continued popularity of hedge funds, especially among high net worth investors. Despite the historical evidence on their lousy performance (as presented in my book &#8220;The Quest for Alpha&#8221;), hedge funds continue 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-28450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450","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=28450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28451,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions\/28451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}