{"id":12445,"date":"2009-10-09T04:28:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12445"},"modified":"2009-10-09T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:28:19","slug":"uks-west-midlands-invests-in-fund-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/uks-west-midlands-invests-in-fund-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s West Midlands invests in fund of hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The West Midlands Pension Fund, one of the UK&#8217;s largest local government schemes, has invested 40 million pounds ($64.28 million) in a fund of hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Goodhart Partners said on Thursday the pension fund, which has 7 billion pounds in assets, had invested in its Global Long Short Equity Fund, which comprises 11 hedge fund portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>The move shows some pension funds are continuing to invest in hedge funds despite poor returns last year. Earlier this year Goodhart won a 65 million pound mandate from the UK railway scheme Railpen [nL6341602]. Britain&#8217;s universities pension fund, USS, has also indicated it is going ahead with plans to invest in hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUSL821894920091008\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The West Midlands Pension Fund, one of the UK&#8217;s largest local government schemes, has invested 40 million pounds ($64.28 million) in a fund of hedge funds. Goodhart Partners said on Thursday the pension fund, which has 7 billion [&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":[1806,709,1555],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-equity-fund","tag-fund-of-hedge-funds","tag-pension-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445","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=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}