{"id":6296,"date":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"more-us-hedge-funds-launch-in-first-half-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2007\/more-us-hedge-funds-launch-in-first-half-of-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"More U.S. hedge funds launch in first half of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- More new U.S. hedge funds were launched during the first half of 2007 than during the same time a year ago, suggesting demand for these loosely regulated portfolios is high even as returnslook less robust.<\/p>\n<p>  Data compiled by Absolute Return magazine shows that 72 new funds began trading between January and June 2007, marking a roughly 41 percent increase from the 51 funds that launched during the first  six months of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>  Investors put $14 billion into the funds started this year after adding $11.7 billion to the funds launched a year ago, the magazine found.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Clearly investors &#8212; both individuals and institutions &#8212; are becoming more sophisticated and are saying they want to invest in hedge funds and so firms are meeting that demand,&#8221; said Matt Simon,  analyst at the Tabb Group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/mergersNews\/idUSN0929154520070709\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- More new U.S. hedge funds were launched during the first half of 2007 than during the same time a year ago, suggesting demand for these loosely regulated portfolios is high even as returnslook less robust. Data compiled by Absolute [&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-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}