{"id":9621,"date":"2009-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"battered-hedge-funds-face-difficult-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/battered-hedge-funds-face-difficult-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Battered hedge funds face difficult 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Herald &#8211; Year after year, the hedge fund industry dazzled Wall Street by delivering &quot;absolute returns&quot; &#8211; outsized profits whether markets rose or fell. Using sophisticated trading models, the pools of managed capital made wealthy people wealthier with eye-popping returns that carried seemingly moderate risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"News\">Not these days. Blind-sided by a colossal market collapse and the widening Bernard Madoff scandal, hedge funds suffered their worst showing on record last year. And they&#8217;re bracing for more pain in 2009. The industry&#8217;s fall proves that even the quantitative brilliance and market wizardry of elite hedge funds are no magic bullet for investors during brutal times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"News\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=264152\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Herald &#8211; Year after year, the hedge fund industry dazzled Wall Street by delivering &quot;absolute returns&quot; &#8211; outsized profits whether markets rose or fell. Using sophisticated trading models, the pools of managed capital made wealthy people wealthier with eye-popping [&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":[574,4331,5633,5665,4341,4504,5629,5627,5542,4097,1225,123,4590,4464,5631],"class_list":["post-9621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-returns","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-brilliance","tag-daily-herald","tag-elite","tag-investors","tag-magic-bullet","tag-market-collapse","tag-models","tag-moderate-risk","tag-pools","tag-profits","tag-scandal","tag-wall-street","tag-wizardry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621","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=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}