{"id":64953,"date":"2018-07-27T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64953"},"modified":"2018-07-26T23:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T03:53:17","slug":"hedge-fund-bets-on-disruption-in-riskiest-emerging-market-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2018\/hedge-fund-bets-on-disruption-in-riskiest-emerging-market-debt.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Bets on \u2018Disruption\u2019 in Riskiest Emerging-Market Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Pavel Mamai was in South Africa last year when he got a tip: President Jacob Zuma was locked in a feud with his finance minister. The feud turned into a firing, the firing turned into a selloff &#8212; and Mamai\u2019s subsequent purchases help explain why the fund has returned almost 10 percent since inception as peers lost money. Now, the co-founder of ProMeritum Investment Management sees similar opportunities in Turkey, Ukraine and, yes, even South Africa once again. London-based ProMeritum, Latin for &#8220;gain&#8221; or &#8220;deserve,&#8221; is all about profiting from agitation, Mamai says. The fund run by the emerging-market debt firm manages about $267 million. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-25\/hedge-fund-bets-on-disruption-in-riskiest-emerging-market-debt\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Pavel Mamai was in South Africa last year when he got a tip: President Jacob Zuma was locked in a feud with his finance minister. The feud turned into a firing, the firing turned into a selloff &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64953","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64954,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64953\/revisions\/64954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}