{"id":67459,"date":"2019-01-09T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67459"},"modified":"2019-01-11T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:59:07","slug":"hedge-funds-squeak-by-sp-500-topping-the-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/hedge-funds-squeak-by-sp-500-topping-the-benchmark.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Squeak by S&#038;P 500, Topping the Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(CNBC) While a 4 percent loss in 2018 is mediocre, it was the first time hedge funds beat the S&#038;P 500 in a decade. Hedge funds narrowly outperformed the market last year, posting a 4.07 percent annual loss versus the S&#038;P&#8217;s 4.38 percent retreat including dividends, according to data from Hedge Fund Research and analysis from CNBC&#8217;s Leslie Picker. The last time the group beat the market was in 2008 during the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/08\/hedge-funds-beat-the-sp-500-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) While a 4 percent loss in 2018 is mediocre, it was the first time hedge funds beat the S&#038;P 500 in a decade. Hedge funds narrowly outperformed the market last year, posting a 4.07 percent annual loss versus the [&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-67459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459","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=67459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67460,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459\/revisions\/67460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}