{"id":51199,"date":"2016-01-08T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51199"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:40:11","slug":"these-hedge-funders-are-the-few-who-are-killing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2016\/these-hedge-funders-are-the-few-who-are-killing-it.html","title":{"rendered":"These hedge funders are the few who are killing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) For the average hedge fund, 2015 was nothing to brag about, and even may have proved humiliating. But a handful of portfolio managers outperformed their peers by a big margin, largely thanks to smart stock picking and shorting in areas like consumer stocks and biotech names.<\/p>\n<p>One of the very best performances \u2014 about 47 percent upside apiece, according to investors in both funds \u2014 was shared by a pair of hedge funds: Melvin Capital, the roughly $1.5 billion hedge fund run by SAC Capital alumnus Gabriel Plotkin, and Perceptive Life Sciences, the $1.5 billion fund run by veteran biotech investor Joe Edelman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/hedge-funders-few-killing-222008828.html;_ylt=AwrC1CpXCY9W7wUAbf7QtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) For the average hedge fund, 2015 was nothing to brag about, and even may have proved humiliating. But a handful of portfolio managers outperformed their peers by a big margin, largely thanks to smart stock picking and shorting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199","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=51199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51201,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199\/revisions\/51201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}