{"id":53575,"date":"2016-07-22T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53575"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:38:19","slug":"travelers-says-private-equity-slumps-after-hedge-fund-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/travelers-says-private-equity-slumps-after-hedge-fund-woes.html","title":{"rendered":"Travelers Says Private Equity Slumps After Hedge Fund Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Travelers Cos., the lone property-casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said second-quarter private equity returns failed to meet the company\u2019s target, adding pressure to a portfolio that was hurt in the prior three months by hedge fund results.<\/p>\n<p>Private equity generated \u201ca few million dollars, and we would have expected about $50 million pretax,\u201d Chief Investment Officer Bill Heyman said on an earnings conference call Thursday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-21\/travelers-says-private-equity-slumps-following-hedge-fund-woes\"><br \/>\n<\/a>To read this article:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Travelers Cos., the lone property-casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said second-quarter private equity returns failed to meet the company\u2019s target, adding pressure to a portfolio that was hurt in the prior three months by hedge fund [&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-53575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53575","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=53575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53576,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53575\/revisions\/53576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}