{"id":9885,"date":"2009-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"delivery-on-absolute-promise-is-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/delivery-on-absolute-promise-is-relative.html","title":{"rendered":"Delivery on &#8216;absolute&#8217; promise is relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lexington Herald-Leader &#8211; When does &quot;absolute&quot; imply something that in reality is far less than certain?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to &quot;absolute return funds.&quot; That&#8217;s the label mutual fund companies have put on hedge fund-style products that they&#8217;ve been rolling out the past three years. The funds seek to smooth out the bumpy, downward ride the markets have taken lately.<\/p>\n<p>But you can still lose money, even if you manage to fare better than most investors in a downturn. Absolute return funds lost an average 11.7 percent over the 12-month period ended Wednesday, according to Morningstar Inc. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/783\/story\/696306.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lexington Herald-Leader &#8211; When does &quot;absolute&quot; imply something that in reality is far less than certain? When it comes to &quot;absolute return funds.&quot; That&#8217;s the label mutual fund companies have put on hedge fund-style products that they&#8217;ve been rolling out [&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":[1362,1848,4504,7531,48,2107,900,7398],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-return","tag-downturn","tag-investors","tag-lexington-herald-leader","tag-money","tag-morningstar","tag-mutual-fund-companies","tag-style-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885","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=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}