{"id":9224,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-reduce-stock-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/hedge-funds-reduce-stock-holdings.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Reduce Stock Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; Hedge funds cut stock holdings by almost two-thirds from a year ago, signaling that they are less willing to take risks amid tighter credit and almost $1 trillion in write-downs and losses, Goldman Sachs Group said. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Net holdings of equities decreased to 17 percent from 47 percent a year ago, David Kostin, who leads Goldman&#8217;s New York-based portfolio strategy team, wrote in a note. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hedge funds may have returned closer to their roots as &#8216;hedged&#8217; investors, less dependent on market direction to produce returns, migrated away from the levered long strategies that many funds pursued during the upward-trending market of 2002 to 2006,&quot; Kostin said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/22\/AR2008112200283.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; Hedge funds cut stock holdings by almost two-thirds from a year ago, signaling that they are less willing to take risks amid tighter credit and almost $1 trillion in write-downs and losses, Goldman Sachs Group said. Net [&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":[2796,2197,2414,276,3838,3766,83,101,3000,1230,3902,3837,236,436],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-dealer-operations","tag-emirates","tag-equity-holdings","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-gimbel","tag-kruger","tag-medallion","tag-raanan-agus","tag-ricky","tag-sunday-times","tag-tiger","tag-time-investors","tag-trillion","tag-winton-capital-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}