{"id":44675,"date":"2014-10-22T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44675"},"modified":"2014-10-22T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:52:20","slug":"ugly-october-hedge-funds-fail-to-protect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/ugly-october-hedge-funds-fail-to-protect.html","title":{"rendered":"Ugly October: &#8216;Hedge&#8217; funds fail to protect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we&#8217;ll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of the end\u2014or at least a temporary market pullback, depending on whom you ask\u2014finally came in October and market gyrations increased. The S&amp;P 500 is down nearly 3.5 percent and the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, is up nearly 14 percent for the month as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102103527#.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we&#8217;ll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns [&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-44675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675","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=44675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44677,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675\/revisions\/44677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}