{"id":11157,"date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"the-new-hedge-fund-bucket-list-sojourn-to-the-middle-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/the-new-hedge-fund-bucket-list-sojourn-to-the-middle-kingdom.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Hedge Fund Bucket List: Sojourn to the Middle Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal Blogs &#8211; From its 17th-floor offices in the New Beijing Poly Plaza building, the monolithic landmark commissioned by the state-owned conglomerate China Poly Group Corp., China&rsquo;s massive sovereign-wealth fund has established itself as a prime destination for overseas hedge-fund managers hoping to come home with big checks in their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Droves of hedge-fund and private-equity fund managers have made the pilgrimage since last year, when China Investment Corp. moved into its new offices, which is itself just two years old.<\/p>\n<p>CIC, established in 2007, wields control over $200 billion, making it one of the world&rsquo;s youngest but biggest sovereign-wealth funds. It also is emerging as one of the new hedge-fund emperors, a source of fresh cash for an industry thirsty for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2009\/07\/30\/the-new-hedge-fund-bucket-list-sojourn-to-the-middle-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal Blogs &#8211; From its 17th-floor offices in the New Beijing Poly Plaza building, the monolithic landmark commissioned by the state-owned conglomerate China Poly Group Corp., China&rsquo;s massive sovereign-wealth fund has established itself as a prime destination for [&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":[14816,9408,9014,14818,13147,13248,281,14815,14814,2222,4317,14817,6544,14812,14811,14813,4778,11183,4464,2750],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-17th-floor","tag-beijing","tag-blogs","tag-checks","tag-china-investment","tag-cic","tag-conglomerate","tag-droves","tag-group-corp","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-landmark","tag-pilgrimage","tag-pockets","tag-poly-group","tag-poly-plaza","tag-prime-destination","tag-private-equity-fund","tag-rsquo","tag-wall-street","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","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=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}