{"id":9626,"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":"hedge-funds-post-record-us350b-loss-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-funds-post-record-us350b-loss-in-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds post record US$350b loss in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Times Malaysia &#8211; Hedge&nbsp;funds posted their biggest decline on record last year, losing US$350 billion globally, as the credit crisis crippled returns and forced investors to pull money out, an industry report showed. <\/p>\n<p>About 90 per cent of the money was lost in the three months to the end of November, according to a preliminary report published on Monday by Singapore-based data provider Eurekahedge. <\/p>\n<p>Funds that invested in North America declined the most, posting a drop of US$183 billion for the year, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>The hedge-fund industry shrank by about a fifth to US$1.5 trillion at the end of the year from a peak of US$1.9 trillion, Eurekahedge said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.btimes.com.my\/Current_News\/BTIMES\/articles\/20090114020239\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Times Malaysia &#8211; Hedge&nbsp;funds posted their biggest decline on record last year, losing US$350 billion globally, as the credit crisis crippled returns and forced investors to pull money out, an industry report showed. About 90 per cent of 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":[4],"tags":[3971,1479,3327,491,2049,4504,48,1256,2345,1129,5685,236],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-business-times","tag-credit-crisis","tag-data-provider","tag-decline","tag-eurekahedge","tag-investors","tag-money","tag-north-america","tag-preliminary-report","tag-singapore","tag-three-months","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","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=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}