{"id":31143,"date":"2012-09-07T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31143"},"modified":"2012-09-07T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:36:00","slug":"hedge-funds-are-having-another-terrible-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/hedge-funds-are-having-another-terrible-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Having Another Terrible Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iStockAnalyst &#8211; Two reports released last week indicate that hedge funds in aggregate are\u00a0performing\u00a0very poorly so far in 2012, on the heels of 2011&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;year of horrors&#8217; for the hedge fund industry.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reading from Bank of America Merrill Lynch&#8217;s investible hedge fund composite index\u00a0indicates\u00a0that hedge funds are up just 1.85% so far in 2012, while the S&amp;P 500 has rallied to gain\u00a0nearly 12%\u00a0over the same period. A separate tally\u00a0from\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0shows that the average hedge fund is up 4.6% so far in 2012 and that only 11% of the hedge funds it tracks have beaten an low cost S&amp;P 500 index fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\/finance\/story\/6027536\/hedge-funds-are-having-another-terrible-year\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iStockAnalyst &#8211; Two reports released last week indicate that hedge funds in aggregate are\u00a0performing\u00a0very poorly so far in 2012, on the heels of 2011&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;year of horrors&#8217; for the hedge fund industry. The latest reading from Bank of America Merrill Lynch&#8217;s [&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-31143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143","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=31143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31144,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions\/31144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}