{"id":50156,"date":"2015-10-02T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50156"},"modified":"2015-10-02T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:55:30","slug":"risky-strategy-sinks-small-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2015\/risky-strategy-sinks-small-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Risky Strategy Sinks Small Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(New York Times) It was an upstart hedge fund that pitched large returns in periods of market turbulence by relying on a complex and controversial trading strategy. At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, investors would have had a gain of more than 600 percent, according to projections in investor documents for the new hedge fund, Spruce Alpha. But when markets again turned volatile&#8230;Spruce Alpha fared worse than most, losing investors 48 percent of their money&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/01\/business\/dealbook\/risky-strategy-sinks-small-hedge-fund.html?_r=1\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) It was an upstart hedge fund that pitched large returns in periods of market turbulence by relying on a complex and controversial trading strategy. At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, investors would have had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50157,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156\/revisions\/50157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}