{"id":14844,"date":"2010-03-31T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2010-03-31T07:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T11:58:56","slug":"dubai-opens-its-shariah-hedge-fund-to-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/dubai-opens-its-shariah-hedge-fund-to-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Opens Its Shariah Hedge Fund to Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Dubai is opening up its inaugural hedge fund to investors after an  index-beating debut.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East emirate&#8217;s first fund of funds, which was launched at  the beginning of 2009, beat comparable indexes by posting a 41% return  last year. The fund, up slightly more than 1% through March 28, is still  outperforming benchmarks this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fund operator Dubai Shariah Asset Management, or DSAM, sees this as  proof that a hedge fund based on Islamic law, or shariah, can provide  similar or better returns than conventional hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303601504575154261992093240.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Dubai is opening up its inaugural hedge fund to investors after an index-beating debut. The Middle East emirate&#8217;s first fund of funds, which was launched at the beginning of 2009, beat comparable indexes by posting a 41% return [&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-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","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=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14845,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions\/14845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}