{"id":44217,"date":"2014-09-26T07:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44217"},"modified":"2014-09-26T07:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:17:43","slug":"event-driven-hedge-funds-skills-stand-out-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/event-driven-hedge-funds-skills-stand-out-in-h1.html","title":{"rendered":"Event-driven hedge funds&#8217; skills stand out in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers looking to profit from corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions proved to be the most skilful in the first half of the year, a study on Thursday by top global money manager BlackRock showed.<\/p>\n<p>The group earned more than half of their investment returns through their own skill, known in the industry as &#8216;alpha&#8217;, as opposed to a return available just by tracking the underlying market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/09\/25\/hedgefunds-blackrock-study-idUSL6N0RQ34K20140925\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers looking to profit from corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions proved to be the most skilful in the first half of the year, a study on Thursday by top global money manager BlackRock showed. [&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-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","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=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44219,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/44219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}