{"id":37320,"date":"2013-08-12T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37320"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:00:04","slug":"the-20-year-performance-of-hedge-funds-and-the-sp-500-are-almost-identical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/the-20-year-performance-of-hedge-funds-and-the-sp-500-are-almost-identical.html","title":{"rendered":"The 20-Year Performance Of Hedge Funds And The S&#038;P 500 Are Almost Identical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider &#8211; Hedge funds continued to underperform the overall US equity market this year. In the first six months of 2013, the S&amp;P500 index is ahead of the CS Hedge Fund Index by over 10%.<\/p>\n<p>That is not entirely unexpected during a bull market however &#8211; as was the case in the 90s. Just holding short positions &#8211; whether in long-short strategies or as risk-reducing positions &#8211; should result in underperformance. The fact that the hedge fund universe includes credit, fixed income, and other non-equity strategies makes it difficult for a broad group of hedge funds to outperform in a bull market. Here is what the CS Hedge Fund Index breakdown by &#8220;sector&#8221; looked like over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hedge-funds-and-sp-500-nearly-identical-2013-8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider &#8211; Hedge funds continued to underperform the overall US equity market this year. In the first six months of 2013, the S&amp;P500 index is ahead of the CS Hedge Fund Index by over 10%. That is not entirely [&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-37320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320","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=37320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37321,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320\/revisions\/37321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}