{"id":56315,"date":"2017-01-27T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56315"},"modified":"2017-01-27T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:07:14","slug":"startup-lendingrobot-launches-automated-hedge-fund-investing-in-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/startup-lendingrobot-launches-automated-hedge-fund-investing-in-loans.html","title":{"rendered":"Startup LendingRobot Launches Automated Hedge Fund Investing in Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Seattle-based financial technology startup LendingRobot is launching an automated hedge fund that will invest exclusively in loans originated on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, the company said on Thursday. Similarly to online investment startups known as &#8220;robo-advisors,&#8221; the new fund will use algorithms to automatically buy and sell assets on behalf of its clients without the need for human investment advisors.<\/p>\n<p>While many robo-advisors have emerged over the past few years, the vast majority focus on investing in equities through low-cost exchange traded funds, rather than illiquid alternative assets such as P2P loans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-lendingrobot-hedgefund-idUSKBN15A28S\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Seattle-based financial technology startup LendingRobot is launching an automated hedge fund that will invest exclusively in loans originated on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, the company said on Thursday. Similarly to online investment startups known as &#8220;robo-advisors,&#8221; the new fund [&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-56315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56315","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=56315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56316,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56315\/revisions\/56316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}