{"id":56139,"date":"2017-01-18T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56139"},"modified":"2017-01-18T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:29:47","slug":"this-hedge-fund-made-37-betting-on-banks-in-2016-and-remains-bullish-after-the-trump-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/this-hedge-fund-made-37-betting-on-banks-in-2016-and-remains-bullish-after-the-trump-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"This Hedge Fund Made 37% Betting On Banks In 2016 And Remains Bullish After The Trump Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Forbes) Can bank stocks continue to rise after a 28% surge in the KBW Bank Index in 2016, fueled by a post-election rally as stock pickers returned to the beaten down sector? Forget the so-called &#8216;Trump Bump&#8217; because the rally has only begun, say Martin Friedman and Andrew Jose, co-founders of a $700 million hedge fund called FJ Capital that returned 37% in 2016. They believe banks will continue to outperform in coming years due to a lowering of corporate tax rates, an improved growth outlook in the U.S., and bank-specific tailwinds like gradually rising interest rates and regulatory relief for smaller firms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoinegara\/2017\/01\/17\/this-hedge-fund-made-37-betting-on-banks-in-2016-and-remains-bullish-after-the-trump-rally\/#10648798f5d9\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Can bank stocks continue to rise after a 28% surge in the KBW Bank Index in 2016, fueled by a post-election rally as stock pickers returned to the beaten down sector? Forget the so-called &#8216;Trump Bump&#8217; because the rally [&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-56139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56139","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=56139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56140,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56139\/revisions\/56140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}