{"id":45297,"date":"2014-12-04T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45297"},"modified":"2014-12-04T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:57:49","slug":"consultants-put-squeeze-on-hedge-fund-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/consultants-put-squeeze-on-hedge-fund-fees.html","title":{"rendered":"Consultants put squeeze on hedge fund fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FN &#8211; Consultants say investors should step up the pressure on hedge funds by questioning the industry&#8217;s standard fee structure to get a better understanding of whether they are receiving value for money.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Irvine, director of consulting firm Pirho, says investors must realise that we are now in &#8220;a low return world&#8221; in which it is no longer acceptable to pay high fees for little discernable skill: &#8220;To be charging the same nominal fees as the golden years of the 1990s and 2000s is a bit rich, you need more skill to justify it and I am not seeing anyone saying hedge fund managers are better than they used to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/story\/2014-12-04\/consultants-put-squeeze-on-hedge-fund-fees?ea9c8a2de0ee111045601ab04d673622\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FN &#8211; Consultants say investors should step up the pressure on hedge funds by questioning the industry&#8217;s standard fee structure to get a better understanding of whether they are receiving value for money. Phil Irvine, director of consulting firm Pirho, [&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-45297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45297","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=45297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45298,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45297\/revisions\/45298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}