{"id":47210,"date":"2015-03-30T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47210"},"modified":"2015-03-30T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:32:41","slug":"russia-and-leverage-are-powerful-mix-luring-hedge-funds-to-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/russia-and-leverage-are-powerful-mix-luring-hedge-funds-to-etfs.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Leverage Are Powerful Mix Luring Hedge Funds to ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; There\u2019s no need for complex quantitative models, or in-depth bottom-up analysis. All it takes is one good bet.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the allure drawing traders to a pair of exchange-traded funds that take Russian stocks and triple their returns with leverage. Daily gains of more than 30 percent and the widest price swings among almost 1,500 U.S.-listed ETFs have fueled a 200 percent increase in shares outstanding in both of Direxion Investments\u2019 leveraged long and short funds since December, while trading volume has jumped more than five-fold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-03-29\/russia-and-leverage-are-powerful-mix-luring-hedge-funds-to-etfs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; There\u2019s no need for complex quantitative models, or in-depth bottom-up analysis. All it takes is one good bet. That\u2019s the allure drawing traders to a pair of exchange-traded funds that take Russian stocks and triple their returns with [&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-47210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47210","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=47210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47210\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}