{"id":9760,"date":"2009-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dealtalk-not-all-bad-news-in-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/dealtalk-not-all-bad-news-in-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"DEALTALK-Not all bad news in hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A handful of hedge funds has resisted the global crisis ravaging their rivals, reaping bumper returns in 2008 in a sign some niche players will always beat the market no matter how dire the outlook. <\/p>\n<p>There is no single recipe to explain why CQS&#8217;s Asset-Backed Securities rose 72.81 percent or Hugh Hendry&#8217;s Eclectica fund 31.2 percent, other than that they doggedly clung to a strategy they thought would bring in the money.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To many observers, my behaviour became increasingly erratic,&quot; Eclectica Asset Management partner Hendry wrote in his latest client letter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Rather than embrace risk, like everyone else, I shunned it &#8230; I was written off as a gloomy character, one of life&#8217;s perennial bears,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUKLT75589320090129\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A handful of hedge funds has resisted the global crisis ravaging their rivals, reaping bumper returns in 2008 in a sign some niche players will always beat the market no matter how dire the outlook. There is no [&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":[4309,249,6688,1506,6685,6687,6651,676,6684,6686,48,6683,4909,4326,86,6131],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asset-backed-securities","tag-asset-management","tag-bears","tag-cqs","tag-eclectica","tag-embrace","tag-global-crisis","tag-handful","tag-hugh-hendry","tag-management-partner","tag-money","tag-niche-players","tag-observers","tag-reuters","tag-risk","tag-rivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}