{"id":54998,"date":"2016-10-27T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54998"},"modified":"2016-10-27T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:24:10","slug":"no-excuses-for-poor-hedge-fund-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2016\/no-excuses-for-poor-hedge-fund-performance.html","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses For Poor Hedge Fund Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds should stop making excuses for poor performance, the chairman of Lansdowne Partners said on Wednesday against a backdrop of weak average returns that have prompted some to pull their money out. &#8220;When we as managers &#8230; have a bad year, we need to be honest and tell clients we are making mistakes,&#8221; Stuart Roden, who heads up one of London&#8217;s oldest hedge fund firms, said at the Sohn Investment Conference in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The average hedge fund had returned slightly more than 4 percent in the year to end-September, industry tracker Hedge Fund Research (HFR) said, less than half that of the FTSE 100 over the same time period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-funds-sohn-lansdowne-energy-funds-idUSKCN12R167\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds should stop making excuses for poor performance, the chairman of Lansdowne Partners said on Wednesday against a backdrop of weak average returns that have prompted some to pull their money out. &#8220;When we as managers &#8230; have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54999,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54998\/revisions\/54999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}