{"id":8894,"date":"2008-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-2008s-winners-and-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/hedge-funds-2008s-winners-and-losers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds: 2008&#8217;s Winners and Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; Hedge funds often try to offset potential losses in the principal markets they invest in by hedging their investments using a wide variety of techniques. For this very reason, many of them rarely disclose any of their investment strategies because they do not want others to duplicate.<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge funds can invest in almost every investment instrument that exists as they are considered superior investment vehicles in down markets. <\/p>\n<p>This is based on their ability to invest in options and short selling. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstreetpit.com\/wp-news-images\/news1\/HedgeWeekly2008_No42.pdf\">data<\/a>, however, reveals that average returns vary widely across hedge funds and it shows, as the following table suggests, that using a broad range of strategies and techniques doesn&rsquo;t necessarily guarantee absolute returns.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/100654-hedge-funds-2008-s-winners-and-losers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/100654-hedge-funds-2008-s-winners-and-losers\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; Hedge funds often try to offset potential losses in the principal markets they invest in by hedging their investments using a wide variety of techniques. For this very reason, many of them rarely disclose any of their [&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":[1803,407,52,149,516,236],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-arch-nemesis","tag-distribution-partner","tag-extensive-network","tag-proceeds","tag-stage-fund","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","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=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}