{"id":6217,"date":"2007-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pension-investment-in-hedge-funds-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2007\/pension-investment-in-hedge-funds-rises.html","title":{"rendered":"Pension Investment in Hedge Funds Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <span class=\"intro\">Financial News Online US- Institutional investment represents 25% of large hedge funds&#8217; assets, according to a report which comes as corporate and public pension funds continue  to allocate more money to the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"storytext\">Corporate and public pension funds account for a greater portion of assets for large hedge funds, the report by <a class=\"keywordsearch\" href=  \"http:\/\/www.financialnews-us.com\/?page=ushome&amp;keywordsearch=Greenwich+Associates\">Greenwich Associates<\/a> found. Hedge fund investment by corporate and public pension funds increased for the  third year in a row. Large hedge funds were defined as ones with over $1bn (\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c2\u00ac745.2m) in assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"storytext\">Direct investment by 1,182 endowments or foundations, corporate pension funds and public pensions collectively account for 25% of assets in large hedge funds, according to  the institutional research firm. Institutional Investment comprised 20% of hedge fund assets in 2005, and 23% in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"storytext\">Corporate pension investment in large hedge funds edged up to 8% in 2007 from 7% a year ago. Investment by endowments and foundations inched up to 11% from 10% in 2006.  Public pension fund contributions rose to 6% from 5% last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"storytext\">The report surveyed 1,658 hedge funds on the internet from November 2006 to January 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/6-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.financialnews-us.com\/%3Fpage%3Dushome%26contentid%3D2348061026&amp;cid=1117389961&amp;ei=xed4RuXXDY3UqQPQl80n\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial News Online US- Institutional investment represents 25% of large hedge funds&#8217; assets, according to a report which comes as corporate and public pension funds continue to allocate more money to the sector. Corporate and public pension funds account for [&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-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","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=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}