{"id":10860,"date":"2009-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-firm-eyes-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-fund-firm-eyes-carbon.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund firm eyes carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Stuff &#8211; Hedge fund firm Pure Capital plans to launch a range of funds, including products playing food and carbon markets. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Limbrick, chief investment officer of the New Zealand-based firm, told Reuters the Pure Carbon fund, which will be seeded with the firm&#8217;s money, will trade in the European carbon market and have an initial capacity of $US20 ($NZ32) million.<\/p>\n<p>He said the fund will aim to grow as the carbon market evolves, but is also ready to exploit the possibility of a slump in the segment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We think there&#8217;s a 30 percent chance the market collapses &#8230; That could create a `fat tail&#8217; (a very rare event with major consequences) for us to make money,&quot; he said in an interview at the GAIM 2009 hedge fund conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/market-data\/2517645\/Hedge-fund-firm-eyes-carbon\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff &#8211; Hedge fund firm Pure Capital plans to launch a range of funds, including products playing food and carbon markets. Anthony Limbrick, chief investment officer of the New Zealand-based firm, told Reuters the Pure Carbon fund, which will be [&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":[13298,1742,594,867,11148,13295,48,13297,13296,4326,12473,4451],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-anthony-limbrick","tag-chief-investment-officer","tag-collapses","tag-consequences","tag-hedge-fund","tag-initial-capacity","tag-money","tag-new-zealand","tag-rare-event","tag-reuters","tag-segment","tag-slump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","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=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}