{"id":13912,"date":"2010-02-01T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:04:37","slug":"bluecrest-nears-capacity-for-9bn-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/bluecrest-nears-capacity-for-9bn-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"BlueCrest Nears Capacity For $9Bn Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; BlueCrest is considering closing one of its best performing funds to new investors in a sign that the sector has experienced a marked turnaround in fortunes, with investors looking to invest money into established blue-chip hedge fund managers.<\/p>\n<p>The $17.2 billion (EUR12.3 billion) hedge fund manager is considering closing the $9 billion systematic BlueTrend fund, which uses computer-driven models, when it hits $10 billion, according to investors.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, which is managed by Leda Braga, returned 43% in 2008, when many of its peers took bad knocks to performance during the financial crisis, and was again up 4.3% last year, investors said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100129-709413.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; BlueCrest is considering closing one of its best performing funds to new investors in a sign that the sector has experienced a marked turnaround in fortunes, with investors looking to invest money into established blue-chip hedge fund managers. [&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-13912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912","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=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}