{"id":6830,"date":"2007-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"quantitative-hedge-funds-blamed-for-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2007\/quantitative-hedge-funds-blamed-for-turmoil.html","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative hedge funds blamed for turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Stock Exchange- August&#8217;s stock market turmoil was the result of de-leverage and re-leverage activity in the quantitative hedge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/prices\/funds\/\" target=\"_self\">fund<\/a> sector, it has been suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Research conducted by Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management (LBAIM) concluded that too many quantitative hedge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/prices\/funds\/\"target=\"_self\">funds<\/a> attempting to de-leverage and re-lever at the same time caused the turbulence, the Financial Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The report predicted that this pattern could be repeated if the same levels of leverage and assets under management as during this time are reached again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/7-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/investnews\/article.htm%3FArticleID%3D18370021&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=zPtLR77rDZq8qgPbieDjCw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Stock Exchange- August&#8217;s stock market turmoil was the result of de-leverage and re-leverage activity in the quantitative hedge fund sector, it has been suggested. Research conducted by Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management (LBAIM) concluded that too many quantitative hedge [&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-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}