{"id":30261,"date":"2012-07-20T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30261"},"modified":"2012-07-20T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:10:58","slug":"hedge-funds-lag-behind-a-generic-stockbond-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/hedge-funds-lag-behind-a-generic-stockbond-mix.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Lag Behind a Generic Stock\/Bond Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Before they discovered hedge funds, pension funds and school and foundation endowments typically held portfolios with 60\u00a0percent in equities and 40\u00a0percent in bonds. Many would be better off if they had stuck with that formula.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds have trailed both the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500-stock index and a Vanguard index fund with the 60\/40 mix over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. \u201cPeople hear about the top-performing hedge funds, and they assume those results hold true for the whole industry,\u201d says George Sauter, chief investment officer for Vanguard Group. \u201cIt turns out that, on average, hedge funds are about average.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-07-19\/hedge-funds-lag-behind-a-generic-stock-bond-mix\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Before they discovered hedge funds, pension funds and school and foundation endowments typically held portfolios with 60\u00a0percent in equities and 40\u00a0percent in bonds. Many would be better off if they had stuck with that formula. Hedge funds have [&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-30261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261","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=30261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30263,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions\/30263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}