{"id":12805,"date":"2009-11-04T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2009-11-04T07:17:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:17:46","slug":"scipion-capital-launches-africa-mining-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2009\/scipion-capital-launches-africa-mining-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Scipion Capital Launches Africa Mining Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASDAQ &#8211; Scipion Capital Wednesday said it has launched a new?fund to invest in African mining and natural resources companies, after raising $15 million in investor commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, called Scipion Mining &amp; Resources Fund, is targeting annual returns above 50% and is being marketed to institutional?investors and wealthy individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Scipion said it plans to take equity stakes in small-cap mining companies listed in Sydney, Toronto and on London&#8217;s junior Alternative Investment Market. It is being managed by Scipion Chief Investment Officer Nicolas Clavel and Scipion Head of Structured Trade Finance Andrew Garden.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/aspx\/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200911040415dowjonesdjonline000414&amp;title=scipion-capital-launches-africa-mining-hedge-fund\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASDAQ &#8211; Scipion Capital Wednesday said it has launched a new?fund to invest in African mining and natural resources companies, after raising $15 million in investor commitments. The fund, called Scipion Mining &amp; Resources Fund, is targeting annual returns above [&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":[],"class_list":["post-12805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805","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=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12807,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}