{"id":6475,"date":"2007-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"iraqi-hedge-fund-escapes-market-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2007\/iraqi-hedge-fund-escapes-market-turmoil.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Hedge Fund Escapes Market Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Iraqi hedge fund `The Babylon Fund\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b4 announced today that they successfully managed to steer away from the general global financial meltdown seen lately.<\/p>\n<p>  Babylon&#8217;s winning streak continued during July (and further into August) with a rise of 3,8% in the Babylon Fund&#8217;s NAV-price.<\/p>\n<p>  Of the hedge fund&#8217;s direct Iraqi holdings, bond yields steered higher upon a combination of dried-up flow and risk aversion factors partly based upon the perceived weakened state of the government  whose success might be seen as being indirectly linked to the bond payment stream.<\/p>\n<p>  On the other hand, in the ISX stock market in Baghdad, prices rose strongly, as did value and volumes traded, as participants positioned themselves ahead of foreigners&#8217; entrance into the ISX, which  was allowed as of 1st of August.<\/p>\n<p>  According to a statement, Babylon&#8217;s aim is to provide long-term capital growth from an investment portfolio consisting of Iraqi and Iraqi-dependant securities. The investment process is mainly  top-down driven, with a mix of fundamental analysis and portfolio diversification characteristics, aiming to be regarded as an easy, safe and efficient Gateway towards investing into the  region.<\/p>\n<p>  Babylon Fund is an open-ended mutual fund that primarily invests into large-cap Iraqi-dependant securities, mainly listed on the stock exchanges both in Iraq and in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>  Alex Akesson<br \/>  Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>    HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=    \"..\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/%20\">    www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>    <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites.<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong><a href=    \"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" target=    \"_blank\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/strong><\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Iraqi hedge fund `The Babylon Fund\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b4 announced today that they successfully managed to steer away from the general global financial meltdown seen lately. Babylon&#8217;s winning streak continued during July (and further into August) with a rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475","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=6475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}