{"id":39977,"date":"2014-01-10T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39977"},"modified":"2014-01-10T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T13:06:40","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-had-a-pretty-bad-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/the-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-had-a-pretty-bad-year.html","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Biggest Hedge Fund Had a Pretty Bad Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine &#8211; Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of hedge-fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, had a great 2013 in terms of making YouTube videos and pissing off boaters in Connecticut. But investing? Not so hot.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, which is known on Wall Street for its culture of brutal honesty and Dalio&#8217;s intense workplace manifesto, lost about 4 percent for the year in its so-called &#8220;All-Weather&#8221; fund, and gained only 5.25 percent in its Pure Alpha fund. That&#8217;s pretty bad for a hedge fund with 1,500-odd employees and a deep roster of trading whizzes, in a year when just putting your money in an S&amp;P 500 index fund and going to the beach would have made you about 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/01\/huge-hedge-fund-had-a-pretty-bad-year.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine &#8211; Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of hedge-fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, had a great 2013 in terms of making YouTube videos and pissing off boaters in Connecticut. But investing? Not so hot. Bridgewater, which is known on [&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-39977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39977","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=39977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39978,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39977\/revisions\/39978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}