{"id":4235,"date":"2006-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-deny-having-too-much-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/hedge-funds-deny-having-too-much-of-a-good-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds deny having too much of a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge fund industry figures dispute the idea that a flood of money into the sector from pension plans and other clients is cutting overall returns by overcrowding the market,  saying recent economic conditions are the main culprit.<\/p>\n<p>  These free-wheeling portfolios can use techniques like short selling &#8212; betting that a price will fall &#8212; to make money in all markets, a tactic that found particular favour when the dot-com boom  in stocks ended in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>  Led by big institutions in the United States, retirement schemes, college endowments and charities piled into hedge funds, taking total assets under management above $1 trillion (570 billion  pounds), and this is expected to surpass $2 trillion in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>  But some commentators fear the growing popularity of hedge funds is dragging returns down.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/1-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.borsaitaliana.reuters.it\/news\/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DfundsNewsUK%26storyID%3D2006-04-06T122741Z_01_NOA644817_RTRUKOC_0_SUMMIT-HEDGE-FUNDS-GOOD-THING.xml%26archived%3DFalse&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=TQw1RKaqGpP2oAKQsdTOBg\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge fund industry figures dispute the idea that a flood of money into the sector from pension plans and other clients is cutting overall returns by overcrowding the market, saying recent economic conditions are the main culprit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}