{"id":7318,"date":"2008-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"turbulent-hedge-fund-industry-set-for-more-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/turbulent-hedge-fund-industry-set-for-more-failures.html","title":{"rendered":"Turbulent hedge fund industry set for more failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)- The collapse of hedge fund Peloton last week is unlikely to be the last in the $2.5 trillion (1.2 trillion pound) industry as credit conditions tighten. <\/p>\n<p>London-based Peloton Partners, which had held nearly $3 billion in assets, is liquidating its two funds, the firm told investors last week &#8212; a failure which is symptomatic of problems across the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Lenders are keen to avoid further losses and are turning the screw on the once-booming hedge fund industry, which relies on credit to finance its investments.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If this type of environment continues, it&#8217;s likely that there will be more funds going down,&quot; said Odi Lahav, head of Moody&#8217;s European Alternative Investment Group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/251263681\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/251263681\/idUKNOA43021320080314\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)- The collapse of hedge fund Peloton last week is unlikely to be the last in the $2.5 trillion (1.2 trillion pound) industry as credit conditions tighten. London-based Peloton Partners, which had held nearly $3 billion in assets, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318","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=7318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}