{"id":68584,"date":"2019-03-27T03:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68584"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:16:44","slug":"quants-are-grabbing-the-calm-stocks-that-hedge-funds-dont-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/quants-are-grabbing-the-calm-stocks-that-hedge-funds-dont-want.html","title":{"rendered":"Quants Are Grabbing the Calm Stocks that Hedge Funds Don&#8217;t Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Quants are flocking to boring stocks as the strategy flips from high-flyer to laggard &#8212; while hedge funds that are snubbing placid securities outperform. Managers that follow quantitative strategies are loading up on low-volatility shares, a shift from their typical allocation over the past five years, according to Sanford C. Bernstein. Those wagers are underperforming the broader market and potentially hitting returns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-22\/quants-grab-lagging-low-volatility-stocks-shunned-by-hedge-funds?srnd=premium\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Quants are flocking to boring stocks as the strategy flips from high-flyer to laggard &#8212; while hedge funds that are snubbing placid securities outperform. Managers that follow quantitative strategies are loading up on low-volatility shares, a shift from their [&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-68584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584","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=68584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68585,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions\/68585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}