{"id":48352,"date":"2015-05-20T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48352"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:18:10","slug":"prudential-starts-retail-hedge-fund-wager-at-quantitative-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/prudential-starts-retail-hedge-fund-wager-at-quantitative-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Prudential Starts Retail Hedge-Fund Wager at Quantitative Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Prudential Financial Inc. the second-largest U.S. life insurer, is introducing a product to allow retail investors to bet with strategies favored by hedge-fund managers.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Tactical Allocation Fund can invest in commodities and currencies in addition to stocks and bonds, and may wager on gains or declines in securities, Prudential said in a statement Tuesday. The strategy targets lower volatility than the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index. The fund will be overseen by Prudential\u2019s Quantitative Management Associates, or QMA, which has about $118 billion in assets under management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-05-19\/prudential-starts-retail-hedge-fund-wager-at-quantitative-unit\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Prudential Financial Inc. the second-largest U.S. life insurer, is introducing a product to allow retail investors to bet with strategies favored by hedge-fund managers. The Global Tactical Allocation Fund can invest in commodities and currencies in addition to [&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-48352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352","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=48352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48355,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352\/revisions\/48355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}