{"id":32663,"date":"2012-11-26T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=32663"},"modified":"2012-11-26T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:36:24","slug":"blackrock-sees-asian-demand-in-illiquid-hedge-fund-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2012\/blackrock-sees-asian-demand-in-illiquid-hedge-fund-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock Sees Asian Demand in Illiquid Hedge-Fund Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; BlackRock Inc., the world\u2019s largest asset manager, said there is rising demand from Asia-Pacific investors for less liquid hedge-fund investments as European and U.S. financial institutions clean up their balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the money BlackRock\u2019s fund of hedge funds division drew from regional investors since January 2011 is dedicated to longer-term, special-situations investments, such as direct lending to companies that need cash and mortgage- backed securities, said Joseph Pacini, the Asia-Pacific head of Alternative Investment Strategy Group. Two-thirds of the allocation was made in the past year as macroeconomic concerns eased, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-26\/blackrock-sees-asian-demand-in-illiquid-hedge-fund-assets-1-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; BlackRock Inc., the world\u2019s largest asset manager, said there is rising demand from Asia-Pacific investors for less liquid hedge-fund investments as European and U.S. financial institutions clean up their balance sheets. More than half of the money BlackRock\u2019s [&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-32663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32663","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=32663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32665,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32663\/revisions\/32665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}