{"id":7362,"date":"2008-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"unveiling-sovereign-wealth-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/unveiling-sovereign-wealth-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling sovereign wealth funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok Post-&nbsp;It hasn&#8217;t been very long since acronyms such as ARM, Alt-A, MBS, CDO, or CDS began appearing in the financial news. Now it is the turn of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). These funds, which are mostly owned by high-saving countries in the Middle East and Asia, have somehow managed to emerge distinctly during the current sub-prime <span class=\"kLink\">mortgage<\/span> crisis. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SWFs are widely talked about mainly because of their size and their large rescue operations of the big banks suffering from sub-prime-related losses. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Examples include Merrill Lynch selling a stake to Singapore&#8217;s Temasek Holdings and Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), and the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC) acquiring stake in the Swiss bank UBS. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/Business\/21Mar2008_biz99.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok Post-&nbsp;It hasn&#8217;t been very long since acronyms such as ARM, Alt-A, MBS, CDO, or CDS began appearing in the financial news. Now it is the turn of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). These funds, which are mostly owned by high-saving [&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-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","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=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}