{"id":5363,"date":"2006-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"december-volatility-poses-dilemma-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2006\/december-volatility-poses-dilemma-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"December volatility poses dilemma for hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A surge of volatility on financial markets would normally be a gift for hedge funds, which thrive in such conditions, but the latest market disquiet may not energise as many of them asmight be expected.<\/p>\n<p>  Managers of the popular alternative investment are just as likely to be trying to lock in the gains they have made this year as they are to be drawn into some last-minute aggressive plays that  could themselves add to year-end market volatility.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Although some hedge fund managers may be tempted to take on risk in December this is not a good time of year to do so,&#8221; said Christopher Woods, senior managing director for absolute return  strategies at State Street Global Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;In contrast to taking on risk, many managers will be putting their portfolios to bed for year end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The conditions are there, however, for hedge funds to be tempted, particularly those for whom this year&#8217;s returns have been disappointing and who need to boost the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/56163128\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/56163128\/newsarticle.aspx\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A surge of volatility on financial markets would normally be a gift for hedge funds, which thrive in such conditions, but the latest market disquiet may not energise as many of them asmight be expected. Managers of the [&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-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","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=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}