{"id":5882,"date":"2007-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"fewer-hedge-funds-closed-in-than-in-hfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/fewer-hedge-funds-closed-in-than-in-hfr.html","title":{"rendered":"Fewer hedge funds closed in 2006 than in 2005-HFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  BOSTON &#8211; Fewer hedge funds went out of business in 2006 than the year before, according to new data that also show that fewer people launched these loosely regulated but hugely popular investment  portfolios last year.<\/p>\n<p>  In 2006 1,518 hedge funds were launched while 717 went out of business, putting the overall attrition rate at 8.28 percent, Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. said in a study released on  Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>  Several records were set in 2006 when Jack Meyer started Convexity Capital with $6 billion, marking the largest new hedge fund ever launched and Brian Hunter&#8217;s risky bets on natural gas sank  Amaranth Advisors, creating the biggest-ever hedge fund collapse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/8-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/fundsFundsNews\/idUSN2944939220070329&amp;cid=1114820764&amp;ei=hggNRpqUJ5bsqgPTkqXfAw\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8211; Fewer hedge funds went out of business in 2006 than the year before, according to new data that also show that fewer people launched these loosely regulated but hugely popular investment portfolios last year. In 2006 1,518 hedge [&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-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","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=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}