{"id":59562,"date":"2017-08-21T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59562"},"modified":"2017-08-21T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:40:23","slug":"hedge-funds-betting-on-stocks-are-having-their-best-year-since-2009-but-theyre-still-getting-smoked-by-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/hedge-funds-betting-on-stocks-are-having-their-best-year-since-2009-but-theyre-still-getting-smoked-by-the-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds betting on stocks are having their best year since 2009 (but they&#8217;re still getting smoked by the market)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) The performance of stock hedge funds this year isn&#8217;t exactly providing a ringing endorsement for the industry. The average fund is up 7% in 2017, the best seven-month start to a year since 2009, when the market hit its post-financial crisis bottom and embarked upon the ongoing bull market, according to Goldman Sachs. And while that return looks good on paper, it&#8217;s still trailing the benchmark S&#038;P 500, which has climbed 12% over the period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stock-market-news-hedge-fund-performance-lagging-2017-8?r=UK&#038;IR=T\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Insider) The performance of stock hedge funds this year isn&#8217;t exactly providing a ringing endorsement for the industry. The average fund is up 7% in 2017, the best seven-month start to a year since 2009, when the market hit [&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-59562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59562","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=59562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59563,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59562\/revisions\/59563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}