{"id":52644,"date":"2016-05-16T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52644"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:05:01","slug":"major-global-hedge-fund-manager-bridgewater-opens-china-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/major-global-hedge-fund-manager-bridgewater-opens-china-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Major global hedge fund manager Bridgewater opens China unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Bridgewater Associates, the world&#8217;s largest hedge fund with around $150 billion in assets under management, has set up an investment management unit in Shanghai, according to a Chinese government website filing, signaling that the firm is looking to expand its bets on China.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as some hedge fund managers around the world including Jim Chanos and Kyle Bass have piled into short trades against Chinese assets, amid fears the country&#8217;s overleveraged economy and ballooning bad bank loans are set to derail the world&#8217;s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater&#8217;s China unit was set up in Shanghai&#8217;s Free Trade Zone on March 7, with registered capital of 50 million yuan ($7.67 million), the website of China&#8217;s State Administration for Industry &#038; Commerce (SAIC) showed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bridgewater-china-idUSKCN0Y70TG\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Bridgewater Associates, the world&#8217;s largest hedge fund with around $150 billion in assets under management, has set up an investment management unit in Shanghai, according to a Chinese government website filing, signaling that the firm is looking to expand [&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-52644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644","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=52644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52645,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644\/revisions\/52645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}