{"id":10122,"date":"2009-03-17T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/10116-revision.html"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:51:23","slug":"aviva-moves-to-stop-lending-shares-to-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/aviva-moves-to-stop-lending-shares-to-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Aviva moves to stop lending shares to hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong> Insurance giant Aviva could end&nbsp; the practice of lending shares to hedge funds in a move against short-selling.<\/p>\n<p>Aviva shares were battered on the stock market earlier this month &#8211; losing 40pc of their value in two days &#8211; amid claims that short-sellers were looking to make quick profits by driving down the company&#8217;s share price.<\/p>\n<p>Now Aviva directors are said to favour bringing to an end the company&#8217;s involvement in lending shares from its own investment portfolio to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.edp24.co.uk\/content\/news\/story.aspx?brand=BIZOnline&#038;category=Business&#038;tBrand=BIZOnline&#038;tCategory=Business&#038;itemid=NOED18%20Mar%202009%2008%3A38%3A03%3A603\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance giant Aviva could end&nbsp; the practice of lending shares to hedge funds in a move against short-selling. Aviva shares were battered on the stock market earlier this month &#8211; losing 40pc of their value in two days &#8211; amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7217,7330,6549,1551,9126,9124,446,9125,9123,6265],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-british-virgin-islands","tag-cayman-islands","tag-civil-complaint","tag-connecticut","tag-delaware","tag-global-advisors","tag-offshore-fund","tag-opportunity-fund","tag-patrick-rooney","tag-securities-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}