{"id":3394,"date":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"do-it-yourself-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2005\/do-it-yourself-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Do-it-yourself hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <span class=\"t003\">ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) &#8212; It&#8217;s time to demystify hedge funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  For too long, individual investors haven&#8217;t only regarded hedge funds to have almost magical powers to make money; they&#8217;re also usually considered out of reach to all but the super-rich.<\/p>\n<p>  As such, the industry has exerted a powerful allure, especially in an era characterized by mediocre market returns. After all, the Dow Jones Industrials Average (<a class=\"lk001\" href=  \"..\/tools\/quotes\/detail.asp?view=detail&amp;symb=$INDU&amp;siteid=google&amp;dist=googlestoryquote\">$INDU<\/a>: <a class=\"lk001\" href=  \"..\/tools\/quotes\/news.asp?siteid=google&amp;symb=$INDU&amp;dist=googlestorynews\">news<\/a>, <a class=\"lk001\" href=  \"..\/tools\/quotes\/intchart.asp?siteid=google&amp;symb=$INDU&amp;dist=googlestorychart\">chart<\/a>, <a class=\"lk001\" href=  \"..\/tools\/quotes\/profile.asp?siteid=google&amp;symb=$INDU&amp;dist=googlestoryprofile\">profile<\/a>) is at the same level today as it was in early 1999.<\/p>\n<p>  Consider how Mark Skousen, editor of Forecasts &amp; Strategies, described hedge-fund strategies in an advertisement last year for a report he wrote called &#8220;The Billionaires&#8217; Secret&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7BF82E6E77-B1E7-49BE-90B4-F531B8412C28%7D&amp;siteid=google\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) &#8212; It&#8217;s time to demystify hedge funds. For too long, individual investors haven&#8217;t only regarded hedge funds to have almost magical powers to make money; they&#8217;re also usually considered out of reach to all but the super-rich. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}