{"id":57645,"date":"2017-04-20T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57645"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:03:11","slug":"balyasnys-tip-to-hedge-funds-at-crossroads-imitate-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2017\/balyasnys-tip-to-hedge-funds-at-crossroads-imitate-bezos.html","title":{"rendered":"Balyasny&#8217;s Tip to Hedge Funds at Crossroads: Imitate Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds that want to scale up and diversify as their fees come under pressure and investors flee the $3 trillion industry should follow Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s growth strategy, according to Balyasny Asset Management. Dmitry Balyasny, who leads the investment firm, says the mail-order giant has crushed the competition by relentlessly investing in its business, expanding into new areas, hiring the best talent and exploiting its pricing power.\u201cWhile it is unlikely that any hedge fund is going to compete with Amazon for the title of \u2018World\u2019s Most Valuable Company,\u2019 we can learn a lot from their strategy,\u201d Balyasny wrote in his first-quarter investor newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-19\/balyasny-s-tip-to-hedge-funds-at-crossroads-imitate-jeff-bezos\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds that want to scale up and diversify as their fees come under pressure and investors flee the $3 trillion industry should follow Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s growth strategy, according to Balyasny Asset Management. Dmitry Balyasny, who leads the investment [&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-57645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57645","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=57645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57646,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57645\/revisions\/57646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}