{"id":5240,"date":"2006-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"investing-hedge-fund-managers-start-to-feel-some-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2006\/investing-hedge-fund-managers-start-to-feel-some-heat.html","title":{"rendered":"Investing: Hedge fund managers start to feel some heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  LONDON: You promised investors 15 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent returns. You took their money, subtracted your 2 percent fee, cranked up the spreadsheet and took your chances 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 profit, 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.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/9-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/11\/03\/bloomberg\/bxinvest.php&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=aEZPRdr5DJqGavf18fcJ\"><strong>Read CompleteArticle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: You promised investors 15 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent returns. You took their money, subtracted your 2 percent fee, cranked up the spreadsheet and took your chances on the global roulette wheels. And now, Mr. or Ms. Hedge Fund [&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-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}