{"id":27530,"date":"2012-02-21T06:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27530"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:04:11","slug":"european-institutional-investors-to-lean-more-on-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/european-institutional-investors-to-lean-more-on-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"European institutional investors to lean more on hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; European institutions \u2014 led by the U.K. \u2014 are expected to raise or change their hedge fund allocations in a bid to improve funding levels while better controlling portfolio volatility, industry observers say.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge fund allocations among pension funds in the U.K. \u2014 Europe&#8217;s largest pension market by the amount of defined benefit assets and its largest hedge fund market by investment assets \u2014 could as much as double in the next several years, sources said. In 2011 alone, the average pension fund allocation to hedge funds jumped to 4.1% \u2014 or about \u00a333 billion ($52 billion) \u2014 from 2.6%, according to data from the National Association of Pension Funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20120220\/PRINTSUB\/302209905\/european-institutional-investors-to-lean-more-on-hedge-funds\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; European institutions \u2014 led by the U.K. \u2014 are expected to raise or change their hedge fund allocations in a bid to improve funding levels while better controlling portfolio volatility, industry observers say. Hedge fund allocations [&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-27530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530","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=27530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27532,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions\/27532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}