{"id":9331,"date":"2008-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"surviving-with-a-defensive-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/surviving-with-a-defensive-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Surviving with a defensive game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Globe and Mail &#8211; <\/span>Hedge fund manager Eric Sprott heaps praise on his &quot;defensive team&quot; for helping him survive this bear market.<\/p>\n<p>While some of his peers have cratered amid this year&#8217;s stock market crash, his short positions have kept him well ahead of his benchmark index.<\/p>\n<p>For the first 11 months of this year, the returns of Sprott Bull\/Bear RSP and Sprott Hedge LP I and II range from an 8.5-per-cent gain to a 4.5-per-cent loss compared with the S&amp;P\/TSX composite&#8217;s sharp 33-per-cent slide.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The reason we started our first Canadian hedge fund in 2000 was because we foresaw this very, very difficult market,&quot; recalls Mr. Sprott, also chief executive officer of Toronto-based Sprott Inc.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20081210.RSPROTT10\/TPStory\/Business\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Read Complete Article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail &#8211; Hedge fund manager Eric Sprott heaps praise on his &quot;defensive team&quot; for helping him survive this bear market. While some of his peers have cratered amid this year&#8217;s stock market crash, his short positions have kept [&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":[279,676,2170,4104,2445,81,602,125,1372,2983],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-acsi","tag-handful","tag-hsbc-holdings","tag-impressive-track-records","tag-mantra","tag-newcastle","tag-och-ziff-hedge-fund","tag-qualitative-assessment","tag-rjr-nabisco","tag-sprott-asset-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","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=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}