{"id":42094,"date":"2014-05-14T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42094"},"modified":"2014-05-14T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:02:32","slug":"grandma-gets-to-play-hedge-fund-with-new-credit-swap-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/grandma-gets-to-play-hedge-fund-with-new-credit-swap-etfs.html","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Gets to Play Hedge Fund With New Credit Swap ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; If your grandmother wants to bet her savings on a bundle of credit derivatives, it\u2019ll be easy for her to do so through a new swath of exchange-traded funds.<\/p>\n<p>The ETFs may not have been created with her in mind, but she\u2019ll be able to buy their shares. Regulators this month signed off on a plan to allow trading in eight new ProShares ETFs backed by wagers on the creditworthiness of the riskiest to the safest corporate borrowers. Those funds, which package credit-default swaps, join more than 250 others that are based on derivatives, an arena traditionally dominated by hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-13\/grandma-gets-to-play-hedge-fund-with-new-credit-swap-etfs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; If your grandmother wants to bet her savings on a bundle of credit derivatives, it\u2019ll be easy for her to do so through a new swath of exchange-traded funds. The ETFs may not have been created with her [&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-42094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094","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=42094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}