{"id":4243,"date":"2006-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/hedge-funds-for-the-masses.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> How can an average person invest in a hedge fund? It seems that if you&#8217;re not an institutional investor or you don&#8217;t have $1 million to invest, you&#8217;re out of luck. I thinkthat&#8217;s not fair. How can a &#8220;little&#8221; person make it in?<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">  <em>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anonymous&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/div>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Fair or not, hedge funds are an exclusive club. Thanks to SEC regulations, they are open only to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/answers\/accred.htm\" target=\"_blank\">accredited  investors<\/a>, namely institutions or individuals whose net worth exceeds $1 million <em>and<\/em> who have earned at least $200,000 annually for the past two years ($300,000 for married couples).  They also require an initial investment of at least $1 million. For folks who don&#8217;t have that kind of change, hedge funds are a no-go.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/5-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.smartmoney.com\/fundfaqs\/index.cfm%3Fstory%3D20060406&amp;cid=1105602540&amp;ei=jlw2RIDOGpL2oALL7YGHDg\"><strong>Read  Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION: How can an average person invest in a hedge fund? It seems that if you&#8217;re not an institutional investor or you don&#8217;t have $1 million to invest, you&#8217;re out of luck. I thinkthat&#8217;s not fair. How can a &#8220;little&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}