{"id":53845,"date":"2016-08-10T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53845"},"modified":"2016-08-10T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:30:18","slug":"barclays-debunks-the-prevailing-wisdom-on-hedge-fund-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/barclays-debunks-the-prevailing-wisdom-on-hedge-fund-returns.html","title":{"rendered":"Barclays Debunks the Prevailing Wisdom on Hedge Fund Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Barclays Plc just upended one of the most common narratives for why hedge funds are struggling to repeat the glory years: they found it&#8217;s not the number of funds that&#8217;s causing returns to languish. It&#8217;s their size. <\/p>\n<p>That calls into question a piece of wisdom so well received that even the industry itself has started to repeat it. Barclays polled 340 investors with about $8 trillion in assets under management, and 74 percent of them said the primary reason for meager returns is that the industry itself has become too big. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-08-09\/barclays-debunks-a-popular-theory-for-why-hedge-funds-are-struggling\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Barclays Plc just upended one of the most common narratives for why hedge funds are struggling to repeat the glory years: they found it&#8217;s not the number of funds that&#8217;s causing returns to languish. It&#8217;s their size. That calls [&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-53845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53845","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=53845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53846,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53845\/revisions\/53846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}