{"id":9032,"date":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"how-hedge-funds-could-hurt-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/how-hedge-funds-could-hurt-apple.html","title":{"rendered":"How hedge funds could hurt Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s an interesting and timely paragraph about Apple buried in the middle of Scott (&rdquo;The Finance Professor&rdquo;) Rothbort&rsquo;s latest primer on hedge funds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/10445360\/1\/hedge-fund-liquidations-five-things-you-need-to-know.html\" target=\"new\">Hedge Fund Liquidations: Five Things You Need to Know<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s explaining how hedge fund investors &mdash; technically, limited partners &mdash; are only allowed to withdraw money on an quarterly or annual basis, which can result, when a fund is performing poorly, in a rush of redemptions that resembles a run on a bank.<\/p>\n<p>To meet those redemption requests, a hedge fund leveraged 5 to 1 will have to sell at least $5 of investments to meet every $1 of redemptions. (And 5 to 1 is conservative; a hedge fund can, in theory, be almost infinitely leveraged.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2008\/11\/03\/how-the-hedge-funds-hurt-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\" Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2008\/11\/03\/how-the-hedge-funds-hurt-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\" Read Complete Article\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s an interesting and timely paragraph about Apple buried in the middle of Scott (&rdquo;The Finance Professor&rdquo;) Rothbort&rsquo;s latest primer on hedge funds (Hedge Fund Liquidations: Five Things You Need to Know). He&rsquo;s explaining how hedge fund investors &mdash; technically, [&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":[2926,2692,67,2227,1930,1383,1760,1155,149,47],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-10-years","tag-advisory-services","tag-chief-executive","tag-debtwire","tag-demo","tag-february-12","tag-futures-and-options","tag-mortgage-markets","tag-proceeds","tag-third-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","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=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}