{"id":22765,"date":"2011-05-31T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22765"},"modified":"2011-05-31T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:37:46","slug":"investors-flee-ex-gs-traders-japan-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/investors-flee-ex-gs-traders-japan-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors flee ex-GS trader&#8217;s Japan hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Gaia Capital Management&#8217;s\u00a0Japan-focused hedge fund, started by a former Goldman Sachs\u00a0trader, lost more than three quarters of its roughly $150 million assets (91 million pounds) in just two months as the March 11 earthquake blew aside its assumptions, a letter to investors obtained by Reuters showed.<\/p>\n<p>The GAIA J-Multi Strategy Fund, which used to be one of the larger Japan-focused hedge funds in Asia and was launched by Kenichiro Nishi, saw a 44 percent plunge in March returns as the devastating earthquake triggered panic selling in markets and forced the fund to unwind all its positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/31\/uk-gaia-japan-idUSLNE74U02T20110531\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Gaia Capital Management&#8217;s\u00a0Japan-focused hedge fund, started by a former Goldman Sachs\u00a0trader, lost more than three quarters of its roughly $150 million assets (91 million pounds) in just two months as the March 11 earthquake blew aside its assumptions, [&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-22765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765","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=22765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22766,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions\/22766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}