{"id":38676,"date":"2013-10-17T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38676"},"modified":"2013-10-17T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:46:49","slug":"hedge-funds-are-jubilant-after-performing-only-30-worse-than-the-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2013\/hedge-funds-are-jubilant-after-performing-only-30-worse-than-the-sp-500.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds are jubilant after performing only 30% worse than the S&#038;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz &#8211; New data show hedge funds averaged a 3.24% return (pdf) in the third quarter, after struggling to return 0.06% in the second quarter. \u201cHedge funds enjoyed a robust recovery from a subpar Q2 2013, with single-manager funds eclipsing their near-neutral second-quarter returns by more than three percentage points,\u201d wrote analysts from Preqin Ltd., which compiles data from hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>While hedge funds\u2019 third-quarter performance is a clear improvement, it leaves out one simple fact: a hedge fund\u2019s investors still would have earned more if they had invested in a basic S&amp;P 500 index. In the third quarter, the S&amp;P rose by 4.69%. And over the last year, the S&amp;P 500 has earned 16.72%, while hedge funds averaged 9.98% over that period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/136598\/hedge-funds-are-jubilant-after-performing-only-30-worse-than-the-sp-500\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz &#8211; New data show hedge funds averaged a 3.24% return (pdf) in the third quarter, after struggling to return 0.06% in the second quarter. \u201cHedge funds enjoyed a robust recovery from a subpar Q2 2013, with single-manager funds eclipsing [&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-38676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676","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=38676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38677,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676\/revisions\/38677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}