{"id":50965,"date":"2015-12-15T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50965"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:51:47","slug":"hedge-funds-burned-by-commodities-lose-40-billion-since-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/hedge-funds-burned-by-commodities-lose-40-billion-since-08.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Burned by Commodities Lose $40 Billion Since &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The biggest commodities meltdown in a generation has cost hedge funds more than $40 billion in seven years.Losses due to poor performance and investor withdrawals have left assets at the top 10 commodities hedge funds at less than $10 billion, compared with more than $50 billion in 2008, according to estimates from Trafigura Pte Ltd.\u2019s annual report. The trader and asset manager said the perception of commodities as an investable asset has been replaced by a \u201cgeneralized aversion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-12-14\/top-trader-says-commodity-hedge-funds-shrink-by-80-since-2008\">To read this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The biggest commodities meltdown in a generation has cost hedge funds more than $40 billion in seven years.Losses due to poor performance and investor withdrawals have left assets at the top 10 commodities hedge funds at less than $10 [&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-50965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50965","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=50965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50966,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50965\/revisions\/50966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}