{"id":31412,"date":"2012-09-20T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2012-09-20T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:32:13","slug":"hedge-funds-face-trial-by-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/hedge-funds-face-trial-by-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds face trial by market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FN &#8211; Hedge Fund Research&#8217;s benchmark composite index was up just 3.52% in the year to August 31, lagging far behind returns of 13.5% for the S&amp;P 500 and not that far ahead of the 2.1% recorded by global government bonds. Hedge funds face further testing times ahead.<\/p>\n<p>True, the malaise hasn&#8217;t been universal. Credit hedge funds, particularly in asset-backed and structured credit, have fared better than most: The HFRI asset-backed fund index was up 10.71% through August. But equity and macro funds have struggled, the latter returning just under 1%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/story\/2012-09-20\/hedge-funds-face-trial-by-market?mod=promos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FN &#8211; Hedge Fund Research&#8217;s benchmark composite index was up just 3.52% in the year to August 31, lagging far behind returns of 13.5% for the S&amp;P 500 and not that far ahead of the 2.1% recorded by global government [&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-31412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412","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=31412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31413,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions\/31413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}