{"id":2059,"date":"2013-12-02T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2013-12-09T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:10:53","slug":"the-truth-about-hedge-funds-expensive-and-limp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-truth-about-hedge-funds-expensive-and-limp\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about hedge funds: Expensive and limp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BloombergBusinessweek&#8217;s picture says it all: Hedge funds talk big, but results are limp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBWhrdgefundpeformance201307.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2060\" alt=\"BBWhrdgefundpeformance201307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBWhrdgefundpeformance201307.jpg?resize=304%2C405\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBWhrdgefundpeformance201307.jpg?w=304&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBWhrdgefundpeformance201307.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheelah Kolhatkar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-07-11\/why-hedge-funds-glory-days-may-be-gone-for-good\">reported back in July<\/a> on the poor performance and high cost of specialist investor funds.\u00a0 The follow up for the 3rd quarter tells the same story:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-12-02\/hedge-funds-continue-to-be-for-suckers\">Hedge Funds Continue to Be for Suckers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the fund managers had to suffer the same kind of losses that their clients do, maybe they wouldn&#8217;t be so expensive and unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BloombergBusinessweek&#8217;s picture says it all: Hedge funds talk big, but results are limp. Sheelah Kolhatkar reported back in July on the poor performance and high cost of specialist investor funds.\u00a0 The follow up for the 3rd quarter tells the same story:\u00a0 Hedge Funds Continue to Be for Suckers If the fund managers had to suffer &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-truth-about-hedge-funds-expensive-and-limp\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The truth about hedge funds: Expensive and limp.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responsible-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-xd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}