{"id":3824,"date":"2006-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"markets-expected-to-find-05-tough-act-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/markets-expected-to-find-05-tough-act-to-follow.html","title":{"rendered":"Markets expected to find &#8217;05 tough act to follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Global fund managers believe equities will have a tougher time in 2006, lagging the double-digit gains many major global stock markets enjoyed in 2005, a study says.<\/p>\n<p>  The Mercer Investment Consulting survey also found that powerful pension funds plan to diversify to alternative investments, such as hedge funds, commodities and infrastructure projects, this year  in a bid to boost their returns.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Hedge funds, for example, are not driven by what the markets are doing,&#8221; Mercer&#8217;s Peter Muldowney said, &#8220;so it provides an opportunity to invest in something that will give you a different return  pattern. When you combine all these things &#8212; equities and hedge funds &#8212; it just gives you better odds of doing well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20060110\/RMERCER10\/TPBusiness\/MoneyMarkets\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global fund managers believe equities will have a tougher time in 2006, lagging the double-digit gains many major global stock markets enjoyed in 2005, a study says. The Mercer Investment Consulting survey also found that powerful pension funds plan to [&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-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}