{"id":3372,"date":"2005-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hbos-ferrans-hedge-fund-borrowing-could-spark-off-next-splits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2005\/hbos-ferrans-hedge-fund-borrowing-could-spark-off-next-splits.html","title":{"rendered":"HBOS&#8217;s Ferrans &#8211; hedge-fund borrowing could spark off next splits- Scotsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/\">www.scotsman.com<\/a>) &#8211; ONE of Britain&#8217;s leading fund managers has hit out at the potential borrowings &#8220;bubble&#8221; within the hedge-fund industry that could burst  in an echo of the split-caps debacle.<\/p>\n<p>  Douglas Ferrans, the Scots-born chief executive of HBOS&#8217;s fund management arm, Insight Investment, said he had a number of concerns about hedge funds, including their &#8220;lack of transparency and how  highly-leveraged [borrowed] they are&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  Ferrans, in charge of \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a385 billion of funds at Insight, said a lot of hedge funds had borrowed at low interest rates, and could be very good investments. But he added: &#8220;If the excessive leveraging  continues and interest rates rise again there could be a shakeout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/business.scotsman.com\/banking.cfm?id=2004192005\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(www.scotsman.com) &#8211; ONE of Britain&#8217;s leading fund managers has hit out at the potential borrowings &#8220;bubble&#8221; within the hedge-fund industry that could burst in an echo of the split-caps debacle. Douglas Ferrans, the Scots-born chief executive of HBOS&#8217;s fund management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}