{"id":23257,"date":"2011-06-28T02:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2011-06-28T02:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T06:36:16","slug":"hedge-funds-seek-a-slice-of-japan%e2%80%99s-740-billion-pension-funds-after-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/hedge-funds-seek-a-slice-of-japan%e2%80%99s-740-billion-pension-funds-after-quake.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Seek a Slice of Japan\u2019s $740 Billion Pension Funds After Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Global hedge funds are vying for allocations from\u00a0Japan\u2019s corporate pension fund managers, who oversee about $740 billion and are seeking alternatives to stocks following the March earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Prosperity Capital Management, the largest manager of Russia-focused funds with about $5 billion in assets, plans to open an office in Tokyo in August.\u00a0Van Biema Value Partners LLC, a New York-based fund of hedge funds with about $800 million in assets, is targeting Japanese pensions by offering funds that buy securities seen as inexpensive relative to the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-27\/hedge-funds-eye-japan-pensions-post-quake.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Global hedge funds are vying for allocations from\u00a0Japan\u2019s corporate pension fund managers, who oversee about $740 billion and are seeking alternatives to stocks following the March earthquake. Prosperity Capital Management, the largest manager of Russia-focused funds with about [&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-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","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=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23258,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}