{"id":18288,"date":"2010-10-15T06:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18288"},"modified":"2010-10-15T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T10:37:07","slug":"fed-survey-hedge-funds-and-the-shadow-banking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/fed-survey-hedge-funds-and-the-shadow-banking-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Fed Survey: Hedge Funds and the Shadow Banking System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/shadow-banking-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18289\" title=\"shadow banking and hedge funds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/shadow-banking-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The new Fed&#8217;s Senior Credit Officer Opinion survey (FSCOO),\u00a0modeled after the better-known Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS), showed that\u00a0hedge funds, private-equity firms, insurance companies and other big investors got better terms from lenders during the summer months, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The SLOS tracks traditional bank lending to households and companies, taking a look at the shadow-banking system, which plays an important role in getting credit to firms and individuals, as highlighted by the financial crisis, which saw a significant amount of lending move outside the traditional banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dealers indicated that they had loosened credit terms offered to each of the distinct classes of counterparties&#8211;including hedge funds and other private pools of capital, insurance companies and other institutional investors, and nonfinancial firms,&#8221; the Fed report said.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, there was little change in credit terms and conditions in over- the-counter derivatives markets during the period.\u00a0The central bank&#8217;s survey was conducted from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3 and polled 20 of the largest financial institutions in the country. The main questions involved changes between June, when the first such survey was conducted, and August, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The new Fed&#8217;s Senior Credit Officer Opinion survey (FSCOO),\u00a0modeled after the better-known Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS), showed that\u00a0hedge funds, private-equity firms, insurance companies and other big investors got better terms from lenders during the summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288","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=18288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18292,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions\/18292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}