{"id":65540,"date":"2018-09-03T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65540"},"modified":"2018-09-05T01:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:06:53","slug":"hedge-funds-shift-to-health-care-may-be-a-hedge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2018\/hedge-funds-shift-to-health-care-may-be-a-hedge-too-far.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds\u2019 Shift to Health Care May Be a Hedge Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) It\u2019s not quite the big short, but the latest outsized bet by hedge funds suggests the highly paid managers are worried that the economy\u2019s good health may falter soon. Hedge funds, which until recently have been overweight technology stocks, particularly the popular FANG members, in addition to the consumer discretionary sector, have shifted their assets into health care. It\u2019s typically a sector that\u2019s less sensitive to moves in the economy than, say, tech or consumer discretionary, and it\u2019s a place investors turn to for protection when they are worried the market might head south. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-08-30\/hedge-funds-big-bet-on-health-care-may-backfire\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) It\u2019s not quite the big short, but the latest outsized bet by hedge funds suggests the highly paid managers are worried that the economy\u2019s good health may falter soon. Hedge funds, which until recently have been overweight technology stocks, [&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-65540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65540","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=65540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65541,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65540\/revisions\/65541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}