{"id":12449,"date":"2009-10-09T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12449"},"modified":"2009-10-09T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:59:45","slug":"banks-offering-credit-again-in-hedge-fund-land-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/banks-offering-credit-again-in-hedge-fund-land-grab.html","title":{"rendered":"Banks offering credit again in hedge fund land grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Prime brokers are offering hedge funds more credit at a lower cost in a desperate battle for market share, although the biggest hedge funds are reluctant to move away from brokers they consider safe.<\/p>\n<p>With the risk of a bank failing still a key concern, many funds now pick three top brokers from a list of JPMorgan , Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank or Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Banks have all lowered their rates and are competing again &#8212; at one moment they were pushing hedge funds away, now they&#8217;re competing for funds,&#8217; said Oliver Dobbs, chief investment officer of portfolio management at hedge fund firm CQS, talking about convertible arbitrage strategies.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/afx\/2009\/10\/08\/afx6980935.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Prime brokers are offering hedge funds more credit at a lower cost in a desperate battle for market share, although the biggest hedge funds are reluctant to move away from brokers they consider safe. With the risk 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":[956,11148,1924,794],"class_list":["post-12449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-credit-suisse","tag-hedge-fund","tag-portfolio-management","tag-prime-brokers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449","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=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12451,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}