{"id":7604,"date":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-techniques-cushion-mutual-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/hedge-fund-techniques-cushion-mutual-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-fund techniques cushion mutual funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Times- Some mutual funds aim to give you most of the stock market&#8217;s long-term gains without those wrenching drops.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are some good ones that do exactly that. They use various hedging strategies to protect against market declines. After the past few tumultuous months, you probably don&#8217;t need to hear too much more to give them a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>Hussman Strategic Growth Fund (trading symbol HSGFX) operates something like a hedge fund. The manager, former University of Michigan finance professor John Hussman, uses stock-market futures and options to protect his portfolio against a market slump.<\/p>\n<p>It has worked so far. The fund has shrugged off the recent crisis, rising slightly over the past year during a down market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2004375878_funds27.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Times- Some mutual funds aim to give you most of the stock market&#8217;s long-term gains without those wrenching drops. Yes, there are some good ones that do exactly that. They use various hedging strategies to protect against market declines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}