{"id":55554,"date":"2016-12-07T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55554"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:35:00","slug":"michigan-state-switches-to-quants-as-hedge-funds-drive-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/michigan-state-switches-to-quants-as-hedge-funds-drive-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State Switches To Quants As Hedge Funds Drive Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Crains Detroit Business) At Michigan State University, it&#8217;s out with the old hedge funds and in with the quants. After posting a 4.3 percent loss in its last fiscal year, the university&#8217;s endowment is pulling $100 million from four hedge funds and moving the money into computer-driven funds to diversify the portfolio. Half the money will go to a fund run by Renaissance Technologies&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/article\/20161206\/NEWS01\/161209905\/michigan-state-switches-to-quants-as-hedge-funds-drive-loss\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Crains Detroit Business) At Michigan State University, it&#8217;s out with the old hedge funds and in with the quants. After posting a 4.3 percent loss in its last fiscal year, the university&#8217;s endowment is pulling $100 million from four hedge [&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-55554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55554","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=55554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55555,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55554\/revisions\/55555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}