{"id":9124,"date":"2008-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-not-defensive-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/hedge-funds-not-defensive-after-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds not defensive after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Age &#8211; A&nbsp;big difference between this year&#8217;s bear market and earlier declines is that most investors who have their money invested in multi-sector balanced superannuation funds have received little protection from the traditional defensive asset class, fixed interest.<\/p>\n<p>The decline of fixed-interest assets, such as government bonds, as a component in super portfolios during the past decade has been marked.<\/p>\n<p>Fixed-interest portfolios have changed dramatically. No longer dominated by government and semi-government bonds, these portfolios are full of corporate credit securities, asset-backed securities such as mortgage notes, hybrids and hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/business\/money\/investment\/hedge-funds-not-defensive-after-all\/2008\/11\/10\/1226165478885.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age &#8211; A&nbsp;big difference between this year&#8217;s bear market and earlier declines is that most investors who have their money invested in multi-sector balanced superannuation funds have received little protection from the traditional defensive asset class, fixed interest. The [&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-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","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=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}