{"id":3405,"date":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-jumps-into-venture-debt-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2005\/hedge-fund-jumps-into-venture-debt-investing.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Jumps Into Venture Debt Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/\">www.redherring.com<\/a> )&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<span>Lending money to fast-growing startup companies that could fizzle out as quickly as they caught flame may not be thesafest investment approach in the world, but it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a money-making strategy that seems pretty staid compared to the kind of highly leveraged bets hedge funds usually make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And with venture capital investment beginning to heat up again after the slump that followed the dot-com bust, the time is ripe for venture debt investments, according to the portfoliomanager at one hedge fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe period of time we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re in right now is probably the best environment we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve seen in the last several years,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Bill DeMars, a senior managing director who heads the newly created,venture-debt arm of Ritchie Capital Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=13807&amp;hed=Hedge+Fund+Jumps+Into+%0D%0AVenture+Debt+Investing%EF%BF%BDor=Industries&amp;subsector=VentureCapital\"><strong>Read CompleteArticle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( www.redherring.com )&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Lending money to fast-growing startup companies that could fizzle out as quickly as they caught flame may not be thesafest investment approach in the world, but it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a money-making strategy that seems pretty staid compared to the kind [&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-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}