{"id":50855,"date":"2015-12-03T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50855"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:04:58","slug":"hedge-fund-woes-cant-diminish-banner-year-for-long-short-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/hedge-fund-woes-cant-diminish-banner-year-for-long-short-trades.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Woes Can&#8217;t Diminish Banner Year for Long-Short Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Investors are finally warming up to an equity strategy that\u2019s been lagging for the last six years.Long-short hedge funds, which place bullish and bearish wagers on individual stocks, are on track to top the Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s 500 Index for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, according to an index by Credit Suisse Group AG. While the S&#038;P 500 has struggled to hang onto its gains all year, long-short fund managers were able to differentiate by wagering on winning industry groups within technology, according to Mark Connors, Credit Suisse\u2019s global head of risk advisory. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-12-03\/hedge-fund-woes-can-t-diminish-banner-year-for-long-short-trades\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Investors are finally warming up to an equity strategy that\u2019s been lagging for the last six years.Long-short hedge funds, which place bullish and bearish wagers on individual stocks, are on track to top the Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s 500 Index [&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-50855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855","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=50855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50856,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855\/revisions\/50856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}