{"id":53443,"date":"2016-07-12T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53443"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:11:12","slug":"morgan-stanley-has-some-theories-for-why-hedge-funds-are-doing-so-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/morgan-stanley-has-some-theories-for-why-hedge-funds-are-doing-so-poorly.html","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley Has Some Theories for Why Hedge Funds Are Doing So Poorly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Poor performance by hedge funds continues to be a hot topic, but no one wants to take the blame for low returns.<br \/>\nA survey conducted by Morgan Stanley Equity Strategist Adam Parker highlights the ostrich-like way much of the hedge fund industry is dealing with its recent inability to generate the elusive outperformance known as alpha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We surveyed a group of long\/short fundamental equity hedge fund managers at one of the conferences, asking them for the primary reason for poor performance of their industry,&#8221; he writes. The top response received by the analyst was &#8220;crowding,&#8221; or where a large number of investors are in the same trade, followed by &#8220;factor exposures,&#8221; or losses based on certain risks involved in a position. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-11\/morgan-stanley-has-some-theories-for-why-hedge-funds-are-doing-so-poorly\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Poor performance by hedge funds continues to be a hot topic, but no one wants to take the blame for low returns. A survey conducted by Morgan Stanley Equity Strategist Adam Parker highlights the ostrich-like way much of the [&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-53443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443","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=53443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53444,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions\/53444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}