{"id":9091,"date":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-winners-amid-the-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/hedge-fund-winners-amid-the-rubble.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund winners amid the rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Herald Tribune &#8211; Bernard Drury is a rarity on Wall Street: a hedge fund manager who is making money, rather than losing&nbsp;it. <\/p>\n<p>While most hedge funds are declining this year and unsettling the markets in the process, a handful are posting spectacular gains. Drury&#8217;s fund, for instance, is up 60 percent since Jan.&nbsp;1.<\/p>\n<p>How has he done it? Drury, a former grain trader, is not giving away his secrets. He relies on proprietary computer models to chart tides in the markets and to ride the prevailing&nbsp;currents.<\/p>\n<p>But however smart or lucky the moneymakers have been, a few bad trades can end any hot streak. Despite Wall Street&#8217;s reputation as a place of big money and bigger egos, many of the winners are reluctant to boast, particularly given the gaping losses threatening some&nbsp;rivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/10\/business\/hedge.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Herald Tribune &#8211; Bernard Drury is a rarity on Wall Street: a hedge fund manager who is making money, rather than losing&nbsp;it. While most hedge funds are declining this year and unsettling the markets in the process, a handful [&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":[2768,828,3649,3648,3654,3650,3653,147,65,3625,3624,889,578,3652,3655,3651,3656,2952],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asriel","tag-backlash","tag-bad-trades","tag-dictates","tag-disillusionment","tag-grain-trader","tag-hot-streak","tag-journalism","tag-june-14","tag-library-system","tag-miscalculation","tag-powerhouse","tag-private-equity-investors","tag-proprietary-computer","tag-rarity","tag-spectacular-gains","tag-tides","tag-women-and-minorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","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=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}