{"id":10823,"date":"2009-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-leverage-is-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-fund-leverage-is-returning.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund leverage is returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge funds have begun to raise leverage levels again in recent weeks as prime brokers and other lenders become bolder about extending credit in more stable markets, a lawyer specializing in the sector said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div> Henry Bregstein, attorney at law at Katten Muchin Rosenman, said that some strategies, such as multi-strategy funds and funds of funds, had tentatively started to increase leverage to as much as 50 percent within the last six weeks.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div> &quot;We&#8217;re starting to see some leverage come back into the hedge fund industry,&quot; he told Reuters on the sidelines of the GAIM hedge fund industry conference here.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div> &quot;With the stronger funds, we&#8217;re beginning to see some working on new leverage transactions&#8230; Markets appear to have stabilised.&quot;<\/div>\n<p>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/feedarticle\/8560810\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge funds have begun to raise leverage levels again in recent weeks as prime brokers and other lenders become bolder about extending credit in more stable markets, a lawyer specializing in the sector said on Tuesday. Henry Bregstein, attorney at [&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":[13092,11148,11708,124,7726,1626,794,11091,4326,13091,1298,13093,13090],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-attorney-at-law","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds","tag-lawyer","tag-lenders","tag-leverage","tag-prime-brokers","tag-quot","tag-reuters","tag-rosenman","tag-sidelines","tag-six-weeks","tag-stable-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","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=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}