{"id":12184,"date":"2009-09-28T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2009-09-28T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:33:25","slug":"city-hedge-fund-exodus-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/city-hedge-fund-exodus-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"City hedge fund exodus begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Brevan Howard, the UK\u2019s largest hedge fund, is planning to open an office in Switzerland, perhaps signalling the beginning of a mass exodus by financial groups from London.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund, which has assets under management of close to $27 billion (\u00a317 billion), has instructed property agents to find an office in the tax haven with capacity for at least 100 staff. It has narrowed the search to Geneva and the nearby Nyon.<\/p>\n<p>In June, James Vernon, the firm\u2019s chief operating officer, said that a proposed EU directive on hedge-fund regulation would make it \u201cimpossible\u201d for it to do business in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article6850919.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Brevan Howard, the UK\u2019s largest hedge fund, is planning to open an office in Switzerland, perhaps signalling the beginning of a mass exodus by financial groups from London. The hedge fund, which has assets under management of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1443,6877,11148,14155],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chief-operating-officer","tag-financial-groups","tag-hedge-fund","tag-mass-exodus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12186,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}