{"id":68575,"date":"2019-03-27T03:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68575"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:07:25","slug":"hedge-funds-beat-the-stock-market-last-year-for-the-first-time-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/hedge-funds-beat-the-stock-market-last-year-for-the-first-time-in-five-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Beat the Stock Market Last Year for the First Time in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Opalesque) The hedge fund industry is alive and while not doing well, is doing OK. The Back Story: The choppy waters of the fourth-quarter&#8217;s volatile markets were tough to navigate for most investors. Lo and behold: The ones who are supposed to be the smartest, and equipped with the fanciest tools, managed to do a bit better. For the five years leading up to that, hedge funds have failed to beat the S&#038;P 500&#8217;s returns, including dividends, like last year, when the HFRI Asset Weighted index generated 6.7%, while the stock index gained 21.8% and bonds 4.2%. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/672785\/Hedge_funds_beat_the_stock_market_last_year278.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) The hedge fund industry is alive and while not doing well, is doing OK. The Back Story: The choppy waters of the fourth-quarter&#8217;s volatile markets were tough to navigate for most investors. Lo and behold: The ones who are [&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-68575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68575","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=68575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68576,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68575\/revisions\/68576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}