{"id":5469,"date":"2006-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mutual-funds-that-act-like-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2006\/mutual-funds-that-act-like-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Mutual Funds That Act Like Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Street.Com &#8211; <span class=\"default\">With regulators raising the bar for hedge-fund investors, there&#8217;s never been a better time to consider mutual funds that try to produce consistent returns byzigging when the market zags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"default\">Hedge fund fees have always been off-putting &#8212; they typically charge hefty 2% management fees and also keep 20% of any profits they earn for investors. Investors may also  object to having their money locked up for a year or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"default\">But now the <strong>Securities and Exchange Commission<\/strong> wants to redefine who is rich enough to invest in hedge funds; earlier this month it proposed redefining  &#8220;accredited investors&#8221; as those with a net worth of $2.5 million, compared with $1 million currently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"default\">In reality, you have to be more than just comfortably well-off to invest in hedge funds, since $1 million is just the price of admission for many of them. But in recent years  it has become easier to get a foot in the door through funds that pool investor capital to invest in other hedge funds. The proposed rule would severely limit the potential investors in these funds  of hedge funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/funds\/fundmorning\/10329693.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street.Com &#8211; With regulators raising the bar for hedge-fund investors, there&#8217;s never been a better time to consider mutual funds that try to produce consistent returns byzigging when the market zags. Hedge fund fees have always been off-putting &#8212; they [&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-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","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=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}