{"id":5871,"date":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"analysis-hedge-funds-clamour-for-china-shares-despite-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/analysis-hedge-funds-clamour-for-china-shares-despite-curbs.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds clamour for China shares despite curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Hong Kong &#8211; Hedge funds are hungry for a bigger bite of China&#8217;s booming but restrictive stock market, undeterred by last month&#8217;s gut-wrenching one-day selloff and limitations on their access and  trading strategies.<\/p>\n<p>  Mainland shares soared 130 percent last year, reversing a five-year losing streak and drawing global investor attention. But Beijing has only granted Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII)  quotas of $10 billion, mostly to major banks, which can make that quota available to money managers.<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge funds, which aim to generate returns in both bull and bear markets, are putting pressure on their prime brokers to get them more access to mainland-listed A-shares, as they see both near-term  trading opportunities and long-term prospects.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/3-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/bankingfinancial-SP-A\/idUSPEK16495620070327&amp;cid=1114785646&amp;ei=WRUJRr6rOqeSrQO5mrDRAg\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong &#8211; Hedge funds are hungry for a bigger bite of China&#8217;s booming but restrictive stock market, undeterred by last month&#8217;s gut-wrenching one-day selloff and limitations on their access and trading strategies. Mainland shares soared 130 percent last year, [&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-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","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=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}