{"id":10816,"date":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"asia-hedge-funds-on-radar-after-beating-peers-citigroup-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/asia-hedge-funds-on-radar-after-beating-peers-citigroup-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Asia Hedge Funds on &#8216;Radar&#8217; After Beating Peers, Citigroup Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Asian hedge funds are attracting growing interest from investors as managers focusing on the region outperform global peers, said Andrew Hill, director of prime finance for Asia-Pacific markets at Citigroup Inc.             <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are pockets of proprietary money looking to be put to work in Asia,&rdquo; Singapore-based Hill said in a June 12 interview. &ldquo;There is going to be an outsized investment back into Asia. Some of the big pensions are going to be looking at Asia; it&rsquo;s coming onto the radar screens.&rdquo;     <\/p>\n<p>Asia-focused hedge funds gained 12.4 percent in the first five months of the year, outpacing returns in the U.S. and Europe, according to Eurekahedge Pte. That&rsquo;s a reversal from last year, when clients withdrew almost $24 billion from the region&rsquo;s hedge funds as managers posted bigger losses than global peers, the Singapore-based industry data provider reported.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3DaBen86a9qzqA\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Asian hedge funds are attracting growing interest from investors as managers focusing on the region outperform global peers, said Andrew Hill, director of prime finance for Asia-Pacific markets at Citigroup Inc. &ldquo;There are pockets of proprietary money looking [&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":[13044,13042,218,812,3327,5309,7052,11708,4504,129,48,397,1658,1374,6544,13043,13045,11183,1129],"class_list":["post-10816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-andrew-hill","tag-asia-pacific-markets","tag-citigroup","tag-citigroup-inc","tag-data-provider","tag-europe","tag-five-months","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investors","tag-losses","tag-money","tag-months-of-the-year","tag-peers","tag-pensions","tag-pockets","tag-prime-finance","tag-radar","tag-rsquo","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","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=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}