{"id":5642,"date":"2007-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"a-personal-take-on-hedge-funds-motley-fool-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2007\/a-personal-take-on-hedge-funds-motley-fool-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Take On Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Author\">By Roy Mitchell&nbsp;<\/span> <span class=\"PubDate\">6 February 2007 &#8211;As that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taynet.co.uk\/users\/mcgon\/default.htp\"><span class=\"SpellE\">McGonagalistic<\/span><\/a> nursery rhyme demonstrates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.co.uk\/news\/Comment\/2004\/c040727a.htm\">hedge fund<\/a> performance can mean different things to differentpeople.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  The main reason I invested in a hedge fund was that I did not trust myself. When I had spare capital I felt compelled to buy shares and as I was working long hours at the day job, the extent of my  research could be dodgy to say the least. So I was looking to tie up some of my capital in a safe investment vehicle and somewhat surprisingly a hedge fund fitted the bill.<\/p>\n<p>  The following is a brief outline of my experience, it should however be borne in mind that all hedge funds are different, and different terms and conditions will apply for each hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.fool.co.uk\/news\/investing\/investing-strategy\/2007\/02\/06\/a-personal-take-on-hedge-funds.aspx&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=CabIRauSH5P2oAKJkLiyAw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy Mitchell&nbsp; 6 February 2007 &#8211;As that McGonagalistic nursery rhyme demonstrates, hedge fund performance can mean different things to differentpeople. The main reason I invested in a hedge fund was that I did not trust myself. When I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}