{"id":57595,"date":"2017-04-18T08:38:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57595"},"modified":"2017-04-18T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:38:48","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-judge-a-hedge-fund-by-its-name-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2017\/why-you-shouldnt-judge-a-hedge-fund-by-its-name-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn\u2019t Judge a Hedge Fund by Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) What\u2019s in a name? For hedge fund investors, sometimes a warning sign. Hedge funds often choose names with words that reflect authority, stability and power &#8212; i.e. words with gravitas. Now a report from researchers at the University at Buffalo and Finland\u2019s University of Oulu finds that investors should beware.<\/p>\n<p>Funds with gravitas-laden names &#8220;have lower returns, alphas, sharpe ratios and manipulation-proof performance measures, higher volatilities and maximum drawdowns as well as higher probabilities of extinction than the funds with lower name gravitas,&#8221; according to the report, which examined nearly 18,000 hedge funds globally that on average manage about $160 million. These funds also tend to charge higher management fees and lower incentive fees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-13\/beware-falling-for-hedge-funds-with-names-that-connote-gravitas\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) What\u2019s in a name? For hedge fund investors, sometimes a warning sign. Hedge funds often choose names with words that reflect authority, stability and power &#8212; i.e. words with gravitas. Now a report from researchers at the University at [&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-57595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595","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=57595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57596,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions\/57596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}