{"id":61806,"date":"2018-01-15T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61806"},"modified":"2018-01-15T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:21:48","slug":"hedge-funds-are-making-money-from-exotic-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-making-money-from-exotic-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Making Money From Exotic Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Cheese, sunflower seeds and rough rice sounds like an unappetizing mix &#8212; unless you happen to be a hedge-fund manager. A handful of computer-driven funds had a bumper 2017 by betting on the future price of such \u201cexotic\u201d assets. The success of this type of managed futures strategy, the industry\u2019s term for trend-following, is now drawing new entrants despite the risks created by the low levels of liquidity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-15\/hedge-funds-fatten-returns-with-exotic-bets-on-cheese-and-maize\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Cheese, sunflower seeds and rough rice sounds like an unappetizing mix &#8212; unless you happen to be a hedge-fund manager. A handful of computer-driven funds had a bumper 2017 by betting on the future price of such \u201cexotic\u201d assets. [&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-61806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806","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=61806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61807,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806\/revisions\/61807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}