{"id":59851,"date":"2017-09-11T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59851"},"modified":"2017-09-11T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:42:12","slug":"investors-defend-hedge-funds-amid-rush-to-passive-and-private-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/investors-defend-hedge-funds-amid-rush-to-passive-and-private-strategies.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors Defend Hedge Funds Amid Rush to Passive and Private Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Some big money investors are warning that the rush to cheap stock bets and private asset strategies at the expense of hedge funds may prove costly.   \u201cAs those trends run their course, it will open up better opportunities for active equity investors,\u201d Eric Alt, co-chief investment officer of $31 billion investment adviser Hall Capital Partners LLC, said Thursday during a panel discussion at the IMN Total Alts 2017 conference in San Francisco.   \u201cOur view continues to be that (hedge funds) can play a really valuable role in portfolios,\u201d Hall said, noting that recent industry challenges around low returns were \u201cmore cyclical than structural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedge-funds-investors\/investors-defend-hedge-funds-amid-rush-to-passive-and-private-strategies-idUSKCN1BI2VQ\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Some big money investors are warning that the rush to cheap stock bets and private asset strategies at the expense of hedge funds may prove costly. \u201cAs those trends run their course, it will open up better opportunities for [&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-59851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59851","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=59851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59852,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59851\/revisions\/59852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}