{"id":42191,"date":"2014-05-20T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42191"},"modified":"2014-05-20T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:42:56","slug":"mom-and-pop-bet-against-hedge-funds-on-junk-rated-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/mom-and-pop-bet-against-hedge-funds-on-junk-rated-loans.html","title":{"rendered":"Mom and Pop Bet Against Hedge Funds on Junk-Rated Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; For now, the Wall Street crowd is winning: Hedge funds and other institutions using leverage to boost returns have overwhelmed the impact of five consecutive weeks of withdrawals from mutual-fund investors. They\u2019ve helped propel leveraged loans to a 0.58 percent gain in May, their best monthly return since January, according to data from Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the leveraged-loan market, strength has returned,\u201d in part because buyers are using more leverage, Barclays Plc (BARC) credit strategists Jeffrey Meli and Bradley Rogoff wrote in a May 16 report. While this will be concerning over the longer term, \u201cwe do not expect any downside from this trend in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-19\/mom-and-pop-bet-against-hedge-funds-on-junk-rated-loans.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; For now, the Wall Street crowd is winning: Hedge funds and other institutions using leverage to boost returns have overwhelmed the impact of five consecutive weeks of withdrawals from mutual-fund investors. They\u2019ve helped propel leveraged loans to a [&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-42191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191","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=42191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42192,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191\/revisions\/42192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}