{"id":41891,"date":"2014-05-01T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41891"},"modified":"2014-05-01T06:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:37:58","slug":"yusko-hedge-fund-bets-on-cheap-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/yusko-hedge-fund-bets-on-cheap-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"Yusko Hedge Fund Bets On \u2018Cheap\u2019 Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ETF.com &#8211; The sell-off of momentum stocks in the first quarter as well as rising tensions in Ukraine were recipes for a volatile start to 2014 that caught retail investors and the smart-money crowd, including hedge funds, off guard. However, one hedge-fund-of-funds manager, who also manages a mutual fund using ETFs, emerged out of the first-quarter turmoil on the right side of the S&amp;P 500 Index.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Mark Yusko, chief investment officer of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based Morgan Creek Capital Management, said his Global Equity Long\/Short fund of funds topped 3 percent in the first quarter, and his\u00a0topped 5 percent. In all, Yusko\u2019s Morgan Creek manages about $6.5 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etf.com\/sections\/features\/21968-yusko-hedge-fund-bets-on-cheap-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETF.com &#8211; The sell-off of momentum stocks in the first quarter as well as rising tensions in Ukraine were recipes for a volatile start to 2014 that caught retail investors and the smart-money crowd, including hedge funds, off guard. However, [&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-41891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891","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=41891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41892,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions\/41892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}