{"id":7195,"date":"2008-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-go-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/hedge-funds-go-prime-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds go prime time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InvestmentNews- Morningstar Inc.&#8217;s recent launch of a star-rating system for hedge funds is the ultimate move into the mainstream for an asset class that has long thrived as an exclusive alternative investment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is just further evidence of the notion that hedge funds have a proper place in the individual investor marketplace,&quot; said Mitchell Nichter, a New York-based partner at Paul Hastings Janofsky &amp; Walker LLP of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>For Morningstar, the move to apply its renowned star ratings to hedge funds represents the next step in a multiyear process to expand into the alternatives space. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This has been in the back of our minds for a long time,&quot; said Ryan Tagal, Morningstar&#8217;s director of alternative investments.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/7-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article%3FAID%3D\/20080225\/REG\/155842598\/1027\/HEDGEFUNDS&#038;cid=0&#038;ei=h93DR8PdEY_sqgODwYDUBw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InvestmentNews- Morningstar Inc.&#8217;s recent launch of a star-rating system for hedge funds is the ultimate move into the mainstream for an asset class that has long thrived as an exclusive alternative investment. &quot;This is just further evidence of the notion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}