{"id":51667,"date":"2016-02-25T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51667"},"modified":"2016-02-25T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:18:03","slug":"hedge-funds-are-getting-ready-for-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2016\/hedge-funds-are-getting-ready-for-armageddon.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds are getting ready for Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) Hedge fund investors are battening down the hatches.&#8221;Hedge fund positions bear all the imprints of significant risk aversion already,&#8221; Societe Generale strategists said Wednesday in a note. &#8220;The volatile start of 2016 forced hedge funds to adopt a very cautious stance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds are long the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, which measures expected stock market volatility. They are also long 30-year US Treasury bonds and the Nikkei.They&#8217;re short the Russell 2000, the S&#038;P 500, and the Nasdaq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hedge-funds-are-getting-ready-for-armageddon-2016-2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) Hedge fund investors are battening down the hatches.&#8221;Hedge fund positions bear all the imprints of significant risk aversion already,&#8221; Societe Generale strategists said Wednesday in a note. &#8220;The volatile start of 2016 forced hedge funds to adopt 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-51667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51667","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=51667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51668,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51667\/revisions\/51668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}