{"id":7610,"date":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-take-extra-risk-to-reach-fee-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/hedge-funds-take-extra-risk-to-reach-fee-targets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds take extra risk to reach fee targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; Hedge fund managers in danger of missing out on lucrative performance fees routinely raise their exposure to risk in a gamble to meet their performance targets, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The study* raises questions as to whether hedge fund managers are acting in the best interests of their investors &#8211; who may want a consistent approach to risk &#8211; or are more interested in maximising their own bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The investor wants them [hedge fund managers] to carry on doing what they mandated them to do from day one. Maybe performance fees don&#8217;t provide the right incentives,&quot; said Nick Motson, one of the authors of the report. &quot;The initial finding was this does not look good.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.ft.com\/ftArticle?queryText=hedge%20fund&#038;y=8&#038;aje=true&#038;x=13&#038;id=080428000126&#038;ct=0&#038;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; Hedge fund managers in danger of missing out on lucrative performance fees routinely raise their exposure to risk in a gamble to meet their performance targets, according to new research. The study* raises questions as to whether [&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-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}