{"id":23907,"date":"2011-08-08T03:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23907"},"modified":"2011-08-08T03:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:56:24","slug":"hedge-fund-buys-put-options-cds-ahead-of-u-s-rating-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/hedge-fund-buys-put-options-cds-ahead-of-u-s-rating-cut.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Buys Put Options, CDS Ahead of U.S. Rating Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle &#8211; R-SQUARED, a $220 million Japan- focused hedge fund, bought put options and credit default swap indexes and sold cash bonds in anticipation of a U.S. sovereign- rating downgrade, said Tan Maruyama, the fund&#8217;s manager.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund, run by Singapore-based MAM Pte, benefited from this strategy as global equity markets declined, Maruyama said. Volatility will remain high following the credit-rating downgrade, said Maruyama, the chief investment officer of R- SQUARED Asset Management Co. in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/08\/07\/bloomberg1376-LPL9DP07SXKX01-63N645GANE2S3R7OHN7C8MMFHB.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle &#8211; R-SQUARED, a $220 million Japan- focused hedge fund, bought put options and credit default swap indexes and sold cash bonds in anticipation of a U.S. sovereign- rating downgrade, said Tan Maruyama, the fund&#8217;s manager. The hedge fund, run [&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-23907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","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=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23908,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions\/23908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}