{"id":6677,"date":"2007-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"from-uranium-to-barges-hedge-funds-covet-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/from-uranium-to-barges-hedge-funds-covet-all.html","title":{"rendered":"From uranium to barges, hedge funds covet all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedflare\">  Reuters- Hedge funds may not be the obvious candidates to run electricity grids or barge fleets, but the race to generate ever greater returns is luring more of them to do just that.  <\/p>\n<p>    Larger energy and commodities specialist funds are setting up so-called &#8220;special opportunities funds&#8221; to snap up infrastructure or positions in physical commodities markets.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/170056022\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\">&#8220;Wherever you look, the trend is to move into the physical side of the business,&#8221; saidGary Vasey at energy and utility consultancy UtiliPoint.<\/p>\n<p>  Large Wall Street banks, private equity firms and now hedge funds are jostling to acquire physical assets, he said.<\/p>\n<p>  Ospraie Management, a U.S-based hedge fund, earlier this year bought into a barge company in the United States, hoping to ride an expected boom in the need to transport commodities across the U.S.  on barges.<\/p>\n<p>  U.S. hedge fund groups Adit Capital and Solius Energy Fund are among hedge funds that are reported to control more than 25 percent of the world&#8217;s physical uranium stockpiles, hoping to profit from  revived interest in nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>  From refineries to liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals, barges to ships and oil tankers and dry ports, nothing seems to be off limits for these financial players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/170056022\/idUKNOA53307020071015\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Hedge funds may not be the obvious candidates to run electricity grids or barge fleets, but the race to generate ever greater returns is luring more of them to do just that. Larger energy and commodities specialist funds are [&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-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}