{"id":54463,"date":"2016-09-21T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54463"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:05:28","slug":"japanese-banks-latest-big-short-for-top-hedge-fund-on-boj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/japanese-banks-latest-big-short-for-top-hedge-fund-on-boj.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Banks Latest Big Short for Top Hedge Fund on BOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Japanese banks are the latest big short for a top-ranked hedge fund, thanks to the central bank\u2019s negative interest rate policy. Horseman Capital Management\u2019s hedge fund run by Shannon McConaghy is the best of 56 Japan-focused long-short equity strategies tracked by Eurekahedge Pte, after the manager started shorting regional banks at the end of last year. McConaghy\u2019s fund returned 14 percent through August, compared with a 15 percent decline in the benchmark Topix index through Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-20\/japanese-banks-latest-big-short-for-top-hedge-fund-amid-boj-cuts\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Japanese banks are the latest big short for a top-ranked hedge fund, thanks to the central bank\u2019s negative interest rate policy. Horseman Capital Management\u2019s hedge fund run by Shannon McConaghy is the best of 56 Japan-focused long-short equity strategies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463","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=54463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54464,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions\/54464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}