{"id":43654,"date":"2014-08-21T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43654"},"modified":"2014-08-21T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:58:00","slug":"ubs-oconnor-hedge-fund-sells-u-s-reits-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2014\/ubs-oconnor-hedge-fund-sells-u-s-reits-in-second-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"UBS O\u2019Connor Hedge Fund Sells U.S. REITs in Second Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; UBS O\u2019Connor LLC, the $5.6 billion hedge-fund unit within Switzerland\u2019s biggest bank, sold most of its stakes in U.S. real estate investment trusts during the second quarter after the companies delivered some of the highest stock-market returns in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor cut its holdings by more than $900 million, selling almost every type of REIT, including those backed by apartments, offices, mortgage bonds, campgrounds, cell-phone towers and hotels, according to a filing last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The biggest reductions were in Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc., AvalonBay Communities Inc. and Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-08-20\/ubs-hedge-fund-sells-u-s-real-estate-trusts-in-second-quarter.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; UBS O\u2019Connor LLC, the $5.6 billion hedge-fund unit within Switzerland\u2019s biggest bank, sold most of its stakes in U.S. real estate investment trusts during the second quarter after the companies delivered some of the highest stock-market returns in [&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-43654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43654","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=43654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43655,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43654\/revisions\/43655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}