{"id":52572,"date":"2016-05-11T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52572"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:48:49","slug":"former-balyasny-analysts-quant-hedge-fund-to-ride-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/former-balyasny-analysts-quant-hedge-fund-to-ride-volatility.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Balyasny Analyst&#8217;s Quant Hedge Fund to Ride Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Former Balyasny Asset Management analyst Avirath Kakkar is starting a hedge fund that will use computer-driven trading models to take advantage of rising volatility across markets. The Limnah Capital Fund, managed from Singapore, will start with $20 million in the second quarter and use about 10 so-called systematic macro trading strategies in 150 liquid markets, including agricultural commodities, currencies and equities, Kakkar, co-chief executive officer of the firm, said in an interview. To reduce risk, the fund will keep the allocation to each market small, he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-05-10\/former-balyasny-analyst-s-quant-hedge-fund-to-ride-volatility\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Former Balyasny Asset Management analyst Avirath Kakkar is starting a hedge fund that will use computer-driven trading models to take advantage of rising volatility across markets. The Limnah Capital Fund, managed from Singapore, will start with $20 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52573,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572\/revisions\/52573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}