{"id":51727,"date":"2016-03-03T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51727"},"modified":"2016-03-03T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:32:24","slug":"hedge-fund-launches-in-2015-dominated-by-equity-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/hedge-fund-launches-in-2015-dominated-by-equity-strategies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Launches in 2015 Dominated by Equity Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Pension &#038; Investments) There were more new equity-oriented U.S. hedge funds launched in 2015 than in prior years, analysis by law firm Seward &#038; Kissel showed.About 80% hedge funds launched in 2015 employed equity strategies, compared to 73% in 2014 and 65% in 2013, said the latest annual version of The Seward &#038; Kissel New Hedge Fund Study, released Wednesday. About 15% of the remaining new U.S. hedge funds used multistrategy and global macro strategies, and 5% consisted of credit, managed futures and other strategies.<\/p>\n<p>A significant proportion \u2014 64% \u2014 of new U.S. hedge funds launched in 2015 started trading with some form of seed capital, compared to 65% of new funds in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20160302\/ONLINE\/160309959\/hedge-fund-launches-in-2015-dominated-by-equity-strategies-8212-report\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pension &#038; Investments) There were more new equity-oriented U.S. hedge funds launched in 2015 than in prior years, analysis by law firm Seward &#038; Kissel showed.About 80% hedge funds launched in 2015 employed equity strategies, compared to 73% in 2014 [&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-51727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727","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=51727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51728,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727\/revisions\/51728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}