{"id":16277,"date":"2010-06-17T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:13:20","slug":"uk-university-scheme-backs-computer-driven-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/uk-university-scheme-backs-computer-driven-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"UK university scheme backs computer-driven hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Britain&#8217;s 30 billion pound ($44.47 billion) universities pension fund, USS, has begun investing in short-term, computer-driven hedge funds in an effort to achieve growth in turbulent markets, its head of alternative investments said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve accelerated our short-term CTA (commodity trading advisers) programme. We have continued concerns about the market environment,&#8221; Mike Powell said in an interview on the sidelines of the GAIM hedge fund conference in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE65F1DK20100616\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Britain&#8217;s 30 billion pound ($44.47 billion) universities pension fund, USS, has begun investing in short-term, computer-driven hedge funds in an effort to achieve growth in turbulent markets, its head of alternative investments said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve accelerated our short-term CTA [&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-16277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277","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=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16278,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions\/16278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}