{"id":53872,"date":"2016-08-12T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53872"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:33:40","slug":"hedge-funds-face-new-blow-as-83-billion-pension-cuts-them-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/hedge-funds-face-new-blow-as-83-billion-pension-cuts-them-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Face New Blow as $83 Billion Pension Cuts Them Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Danish pension fund PFA says it has found a way to boost returns in a world of ultra-low yields: cut out middle men like hedge fund managers and do it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of our new strategy is to do more investments directly instead of via specialized funds,\u201d said Christian Lage, who helps oversee about $83 billion in pension savings as co-chief investment officer at PFA in Copenhagen. \u201cFund structures are typically very expensive and as yields have come down, the focus on costs has increased quite remarkably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-08-11\/hedge-funds-face-new-blow-as-83-billion-investor-opts-for-diy\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Danish pension fund PFA says it has found a way to boost returns in a world of ultra-low yields: cut out middle men like hedge fund managers and do it yourself. \u201cPart of our new strategy is to do [&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-53872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53872","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=53872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53873,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53872\/revisions\/53873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}