{"id":3799,"date":"2006-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-get-clipped-slim-gains-and-scandals-turn-off-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/hedge-funds-get-clipped-slim-gains-and-scandals-turn-off-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Get Clipped Slim gains and scandals turn off investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleText\">  <span class=\"articleDropcap\">T<\/span>hink hedge funds mint money? Consider this: The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s hedge fund index posted gains of just over 2.4 percent in 2005&#8211;after meager gains of 3.6  percent in 2004&#8211;or about half the performance of the S&amp;P 500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleText\">  That track record hasn&#8217;t hurt the earnings of the average hedge fund manager, who took home about $1.2 million in 2004. But with the number of hedge funds&#8211;thinly regulated investment pools for the  well-to-do&#8211;having mushroomed from a few hundred to more than 8,000 worldwide, with combined assets now around the $1 trillion mark, many investors are finding that storied hedge fund edge elusive.  It&#8217;s pretty hard, after all, to make the case that all 8,000 funds are being run by the best and the brightest. And in such a crowded field, many of the tactics that have made hedge funds so  profitable in the past are oversubscribed.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/biztech\/articles\/060109\/9hedge.htm\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think hedge funds mint money? Consider this: The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s hedge fund index posted gains of just over 2.4 percent in 2005&#8211;after meager gains of 3.6 percent in 2004&#8211;or about half the performance of the S&amp;P 500. That track [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}