{"id":30219,"date":"2012-07-19T03:44:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30219"},"modified":"2012-07-19T03:44:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T07:44:14","slug":"private-hedge-fund-alpha-surveys-allow-wealthy-clients-to-profit-from-insider-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/private-hedge-fund-alpha-surveys-allow-wealthy-clients-to-profit-from-insider-views.html","title":{"rendered":"Private Hedge Fund &#8220;Alpha&#8221; Surveys Allow Wealthy Clients to Profit From &#8220;Insider&#8221; Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CorpWatch &#8211; BlackRock, Marshall Wace, and Two Sigma Investments \u2013 three major hedge funds &#8211; have been conducting regular private surveys of brokers for wealthy clients. The practice \u2013 often called \u201calpha capture\u201d &#8211; has raised red flags because of recent insider trading scandals at Goldman Sachs as well as\u00a0information allegedly handed out by Morgan Stanley analysts during the Facebook stock market flotation.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds are part of the $2.13 trillion global \u201calternative investment industry\u201d which invests the assets of wealthy individuals and institutional investors, outside the scrutiny of normal regulation, in the hope of generating outsize profits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpwatch.org\/article.php?id=15753\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CorpWatch &#8211; BlackRock, Marshall Wace, and Two Sigma Investments \u2013 three major hedge funds &#8211; have been conducting regular private surveys of brokers for wealthy clients. The practice \u2013 often called \u201calpha capture\u201d &#8211; has raised red flags because of [&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-30219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219","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=30219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30220,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219\/revisions\/30220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}