{"id":5770,"date":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"let-a-thousand-hedge-funds-bloom-in-china-ft-alphaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/let-a-thousand-hedge-funds-bloom-in-china-ft-alphaville.html","title":{"rendered":"Let a thousand hedge funds bloom &#8211; in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <span class=\"news_story_title\">China should legalise hedge funds and bring in more private equity funds in order to develop the country\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s futures market, a Beijing-based university professor has  argued [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=adBG6aScmTo0\" title=\"External link to report at Bloomberg\">via Bloomberg<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  Professor Hu Yuyue, head of the stock futures research center at the Beijing Technology and Business University, made the call at an investment conference in Beijing yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe futures market is plagued by a small range of products, limited size and the dominance of retail investors,&#8217;\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 said Hu. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIndividuals don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t understand well the risks involved in trading futures.  We need institutional investors like hedge funds to drive the market.&#8217;\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/p>\n<p>  Overseas funds are currently allowed to set up representative offices in the country, Bloomberg reported, but those offices can only conduct market research and are banned from placing any trading  orders. Funds focusing on China typically register in another jurisdiction, such as Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/9-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/2970\/let-a-thousand-hedge-funds-bloom-in-china\/&amp;cid=1114206862&amp;ei=K8HuRdW4Ga64swHjwoHeCQ\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China should legalise hedge funds and bring in more private equity funds in order to develop the country\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s futures market, a Beijing-based university professor has argued [via Bloomberg]. Professor Hu Yuyue, head of the stock futures research center at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}