{"id":5229,"date":"2006-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-are-tempted-to-let-loose-dogs-of-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2006\/hedge-funds-are-tempted-to-let-loose-dogs-of-risk.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Tempted to Let Loose Dogs of Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) &#8212; You promised investors 15 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent returns. You took their money, subtracted your 2 percent fee, cranked up the spreadsheet and rolled your balls on the  global roulette wheels.<\/p>\n<p>  And now, Mr. or Ms. Hedge Fund Manager, you have a choice. Hunker down to preserve this year&#8217;s meager profits, acknowledging the danger that the money might walk back out the door in disgust. Or  take the death-or-glory option, with some big, bold bets in the final two months as you try to rescue your year.<\/p>\n<p>  Regulators, who are inclined to view investing in a hedge fund as akin to dancing in a roomful of fireworks with a lighted blowtorch in each hand, have grown increasingly vocal about what they see  as excessively dangerous trading behavior.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&amp;refer=columnist_gilbert&amp;sid=atB3P3xe27FE\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) &#8212; You promised investors 15 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent returns. You took their money, subtracted your 2 percent fee, cranked up the spreadsheet and rolled your balls on the global roulette wheels. And now, Mr. or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}