{"id":35180,"date":"2013-05-01T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35180"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:12:48","slug":"market-tumult-hedge-funds-not-doing-well-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/market-tumult-hedge-funds-not-doing-well-in-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Volatility Hedge Funds Down In 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-35185\" alt=\"images (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images-3.jpg\" width=\"142\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211;\u00a0Volatility\u00a0funds such as $600 million Saiers Capital fund, use strategies that take advantage of\u00a0pricing discrepancies caused by gyrations in global financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These funds flourished in the years after the financial crisis, when volatility was running hot, but this year is a different story.&#8221; Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are saying that Saiers Capital&#8217;s fund is down about 1.24 percent through April 26. Hedge fund tracking firm eVestment reports that\u00a0volatility funds gained 1.16 percent in the first quarter, underperforming the broader hedge fund industry&#8217;s 3.7 percent gain.<\/p>\n<p>Volatility funds represent around\u00a0$17 billion in the\u00a0hedge fund industry&#8217;s $2 trillion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211;\u00a0Volatility\u00a0funds such as $600 million Saiers Capital fund, use strategies that take advantage of\u00a0pricing discrepancies caused by gyrations in global financial markets. &#8220;These funds flourished in the years after the financial crisis, when volatility was running hot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180","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=35180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35182,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions\/35182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}