{"id":26235,"date":"2011-11-28T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26235"},"modified":"2011-11-28T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:49:33","slug":"newly-launched-hfrx-korea-hedge-fund-index-gains-8-3-percent-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/newly-launched-hfrx-korea-hedge-fund-index-gains-8-3-percent-in-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Newly Launched HFRX Korea Hedge Fund Index Gains +8.3% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/korea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26238\" title=\"korea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/korea-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/korea-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/korea.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u00a0&#8211; HFR has launched the HFRX Korea Index, comprised of hedge funds investing primarily\u00a0in Korea and the latest addition to HFR\u2019s comprehensive suite of HFRX EM and Asian hedge\u00a0fund benchmarks. This new index reflects the increased growth and influence of hedge funds in\u00a0Asia, and specifically the growth of investors and hedge funds located in Emerging Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmerging market asset volatility has accelerated in recent months in response to external\u00a0factors and internal EM fundamentals, a trend which is likely to continue to present both\u00a0opportunities and challenges for hedge funds and investors,\u201d said Kenneth J. Heinz, President of\u00a0HFR. \u201cEmerging market hedge funds offer sophisticated access to strategies which complement\u00a0existing EM equity and sovereign fixed income positions with Macro and Arbitrage strategies\u00a0designed to monetize opportunities in currencies, equities and sovereign bonds, while mitigating\u00a0certain aspects of directional volatility inherent in emerging market investing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HFR \u00a0partnered with Wind Information, the leading\u00a0provider of data and information to the Asian marketplace, which became effective in October\u00a02011. Wind Information Co., Ltd (Wind Info), headquartered in Lujiazui Financial Center in\u00a0Shanghai, is a leading integrated service provider of financial data, information and software, Hedge Fund Research The partnership between HFR and Wind Info enables Chinese financial institutions to access\u00a0the HFR Database with local market support and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u00a0&#8211; HFR has launched the HFRX Korea Index, comprised of hedge funds investing primarily\u00a0in Korea and the latest addition to HFR\u2019s comprehensive suite of HFRX EM and Asian hedge\u00a0fund benchmarks. This new index reflects the increased growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","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=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26237,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions\/26237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}