{"id":9976,"date":"2009-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"absolute-return-funds-promise-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/absolute-return-funds-promise-the-holy-grail.html","title":{"rendered":"Absolute-Return Funds Promise the Holy Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Gather round, children, to hear about the investments you&rsquo;ve been waiting for. They suggest that you might get positive returns in any economic climate, regardless of whether stocks are going up or down. <\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8212; don&rsquo;t run! It&rsquo;s not Bernard Madoff or even R. Allen Stanford, the mini-Madoff, who allegedly bilked savers out of $8 billion in supposedly high-rate certificates of deposit. It&rsquo;s sanctified by hedge funds and brought to you by America&rsquo;s finest financial engineers. What could be more inspirational than that? <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m talking about the mutual funds whose investment strategies aim to be &ldquo;market neutral&rdquo; or to deliver &ldquo;absolute returns.&rdquo; Morningstar in Chicago, which publishes fund data, currently has 28 of them on its list, up from a handful five years ago. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&#038;refer=columnist_quinn&#038;sid=aHISy61O4hCc\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Gather round, children, to hear about the investments you&rsquo;ve been waiting for. They suggest that you might get positive returns in any economic climate, regardless of whether stocks are going up or down. Wait &#8212; don&rsquo;t run! It&rsquo;s [&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":[574,4331,7692,8202,8201,676,4791,1482,2107,4710,8203,8078,353],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-returns","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-certificates-of-deposit","tag-economic-climate","tag-financial-engineers","tag-handful","tag-investment-strategies","tag-investments","tag-morningstar","tag-mutual-funds","tag-r-allen","tag-stanford","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","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=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}