{"id":3840,"date":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"why-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/why-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Hedge Funds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Forbes &#8211; So you want to be a millionaire. OK, maybe you already are one. But are you still investing in hedge funds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">As an investor, last year certainly wasn&#8217;t a year to remember. Hedge funds notched an average 8.03% return for the year&#8211;better than the 4.9% returned by the S&amp;P 500index and better than the -0.61% logged by the Dow Jones industrial average, according to data complied by Hennessee Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">So-called long\/short equity hedge fund managers had average gains of 6.98% for the year, according to the data from Hennessee, which advises wealthy individuals andinstitutions on where to direct their hedge fund investments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">But what the data do not do is compare hedge fund performance with that of mutual funds&#8211;those comparatively boring investment pools for ordinary mortals. According toMorningstar, some 4,757 actively managed stock funds beat the broad Hennessee hedge fund index and returned performance better than 8%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/finance\/2006\/01\/11\/hedge-fund-performance-cx_lm_0111hedge.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; So you want to be a millionaire. OK, maybe you already are one. But are you still investing in hedge funds? As an investor, last year certainly wasn&#8217;t a year to remember. Hedge funds notched an average 8.03% [&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-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}