{"id":8817,"date":"2008-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/hedge-funds-at-risk.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lingo_region\">Forbes &#8211; The hedge fund sector has to date weathered market volitality better than the banking sector, since no large bellwether hedge fund has yet gone bankrupt. Nonetheless, hedge funds are expecting a wave of redemptions, as investors move to safer investments and reconsider their commitments to the sector. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hedge fund sector resilience?<\/strong> Whereas banking sector difficulties have provoked a host of policy responses, including Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson&#8217;s now-moribund $700 billion bailout package&#8211;no hedge fund problem has yet necessitated a similar systemic response. The apparent resilience of the sector is particularly striking given that recent estimates suggest that the $2 trillion hedge fund industry accounts for approximately 30% of U.S. equity and bond trades (although volatile market conditions have led many managers to shift greater percentages of their holdings into cash-equivalents). <\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/2008\/09\/30\/hedge-funds-bailout-biz-cx-1001oxford.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The hedge fund sector has to date weathered market volitality better than the banking sector, since no large bellwether hedge fund has yet gone bankrupt. Nonetheless, hedge funds are expecting a wave of redemptions, as investors move to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3103,916,1659,526,1111,2796,3104,2855,276,1658,149,1937,2848],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-american-economy","tag-arbitrage","tag-asia-stock-markets","tag-contention","tag-coo","tag-dealer-operations","tag-drawdown","tag-environmental-technologies","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-peers","tag-proceeds","tag-recapitalisation","tag-turnover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}