{"id":43635,"date":"2014-08-20T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43635"},"modified":"2014-08-20T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:13:47","slug":"smart-money-hedge-funds-flunk-performance-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2014\/smart-money-hedge-funds-flunk-performance-test.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smart money&#8217; hedge funds flunk performance test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today &#8211; If grades were given out to hedge funds, often dubbed the \u201csmart money,\u201d for their recent investment performance, they\u2019d probably get a \u201cC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, these secretive investments favored by the wealthy and institutional investors have trailed the performance of the benchmark Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500-stock index in 2014 \u2014 thru the end of July \u2014 as well as in the past 12 months, according to preliminary July data compiled by Preqin, a supplier of data, analysis and intelligence services to the alternative assets industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americasmarkets.usatoday.com\/2014\/08\/19\/smart-money-hedge-funds-flunk-performance-test\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today &#8211; If grades were given out to hedge funds, often dubbed the \u201csmart money,\u201d for their recent investment performance, they\u2019d probably get a \u201cC.\u201d Indeed, these secretive investments favored by the wealthy and institutional investors have trailed the [&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-43635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635","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=43635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43636,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635\/revisions\/43636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}