{"id":55058,"date":"2016-11-01T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55058"},"modified":"2016-11-01T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:45:33","slug":"hedge-fund-viking-got-boost-from-european-stocks-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2016\/hedge-fund-viking-got-boost-from-european-stocks-in-third-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Viking Got Boost From European Stocks in Third Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) A bigger bet on European stocks in the last quarter helped U.S. hedge fund Viking Global Investors improve returns after a difficult start to the year.&#8221;Notably, both net and gross exposure to European companies increased by 11 percentage points as we added longs in several sectors,&#8221; the hedge fund told investors in a quarterly letter dated Oct. 14 and seen by Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Viking&#8217;s flagship Viking Global Equities fund is now roughly flat for the year, trailing the HFRI Composite Index&#8217; 4.15 percent gain. During the third quarter, Viking&#8217;s 5.7 percent gain helped wipe away much of the first quarter&#8217;s 8.3 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-viking-idUSKBN12V1S2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A bigger bet on European stocks in the last quarter helped U.S. hedge fund Viking Global Investors improve returns after a difficult start to the year.&#8221;Notably, both net and gross exposure to European companies increased by 11 percentage points [&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-55058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058","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=55058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55059,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058\/revisions\/55059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}