{"id":42070,"date":"2014-05-13T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42070"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:06:48","slug":"hedge-fund-returns-are-falling-because-hedge-fund-returns-used-to-be-just-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/hedge-fund-returns-are-falling-because-hedge-fund-returns-used-to-be-just-great.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Returns Are Falling Because Hedge Fund Returns Used To Be Just Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Dam McCrum over at FT Alphaville has a look at why the top hedge fund managers are making so much darn money. I don\u2019t disagree with anything he says I just want to pick up on a point and expand it. For we can explain some of what has been happening just with some pure Adam Smith from a couple of centuries ago. what is being said here about new and small hedge funds also rather applies to the entire industry:<\/p>\n<p>Small and young hedge funds are nimble, their managers are focused, and they can concentrate their capital in a small number of good ideas without moving prices or attracting attention. One study by Barclays found that funds under two year\u2019s old, and managing less than $100m typically make better investment returns than their larger older peers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timworstall\/2014\/05\/09\/hedge-fund-returns-are-falling-because-hedge-fund-returns-used-to-be-just-great\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Dam McCrum over at FT Alphaville has a look at why the top hedge fund managers are making so much darn money. I don\u2019t disagree with anything he says I just want to pick up on a point [&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-42070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070","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=42070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42071,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070\/revisions\/42071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}