{"id":9804,"date":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"soros-imitators-reap-riches-in-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/soros-imitators-reap-riches-in-financial-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Soros imitators reap riches in financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Age &#8211; Hedge fund managers on average lost 18.7% of their clients&#8217; money in 2008, for the worst performance since at least 1990, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Combine the losses with investor redemptions, and total hedge fund assets have been cut almost in half. TrimTabs Investment Research and Barclay Hedge estimated funds held $US1.1 trillion ($1.7 trillion) at the end of the year, down from $US1.9 trillion a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>One rare bright spot: the resilience of global macro fund managers, who wager on currencies, equities, interest rates and commodities based on their fundamental analysis of world economic trends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/business\/markets\/soros-imitators-reap-riches-in-financial-crisis-20090205-7ydn.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age &#8211; Hedge fund managers on average lost 18.7% of their clients&#8217; money in 2008, for the worst performance since at least 1990, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc. Combine the losses with investor redemptions, and total hedge fund [&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":[2255,207,410,6978,1543,6977,5465,2222,6642,6979,4650,129,48,4325,1467,236],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barclay","tag-commodities","tag-currencies","tag-economic-trends","tag-fund-assets","tag-fundamental-analysis","tag-global-macro","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-interest-rates","tag-investment-research","tag-investor","tag-losses","tag-money","tag-redemptions","tag-resilience","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}