{"id":3432,"date":"2005-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"the-buttonwood-column-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2005\/the-buttonwood-column-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"The Buttonwood column: hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">www.economist.com<\/a> ) &#8211; Forget&nbsp;the leadership squabbles at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. The best story in the British press this  weekend was of a deal-happy hedge-fund manager who spent \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a336,000 ($64,000) in a London bar in a single evening, including a \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a33,000 tip for the bemused waitress. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not the amount spent that  leaves people amazed, eye-catching though it was. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s that he was apparently so nice.<\/p>\n<p>  What is it about hedge funds? If lawyers hadn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t already taken all the worst jokes, hedge-fund folk would certainly be contenders. The high-paid managers of these lightly regulated investment pools  are blamed for everything from the high price of oil to the crumbling of corporate governance. Yet they are looking anything but omnipotent these days, as rumbling scandals combine with so-so  performance to turn many traditional investors off hedge funds before newer institutional fans are firmly committed to them.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?b402755688&amp;r=MSNnews\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( www.economist.com ) &#8211; Forget&nbsp;the leadership squabbles at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. The best story in the British press this weekend was of a deal-happy hedge-fund manager who spent \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a336,000 ($64,000) in a London bar in a single [&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-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}