{"id":7753,"date":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"yougov-alpha-hedge-fund-targets-50-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/yougov-alpha-hedge-fund-targets-50-million.html","title":{"rendered":"YouGov Alpha hedge fund targets $50 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedflare\">Reuters UK- Polling and research group YouGov said on Monday it is aiming to raise up to $50 million (25 million pounds) for the launch of a hedge fund that will use polling data to highlight lucrative investment strategies. <\/p>\n<p>The YouGov Alpha fund, which will be managed by investment boutique Four Capital, aims to gain an investment edge through YouGov&#8217;s research, which it believes can highlight areas where the stock market is being too optimistic or pessimistic, for example in retail sales.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;re looking to use it where the signals we get from the YouGov research are almost diametrically opposed to signals in the marketplace,&quot; said Four Capital fund manager Chris Rodgers, previously head of HSBC Halbis Partners&#8217; UK Equity team and a senior fund manager at Schroders <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/293309110\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/293309110\/idUKNOA92671220080519\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK- Polling and research group YouGov said on Monday it is aiming to raise up to $50 million (25 million pounds) for the launch of a hedge fund that will use polling data to highlight lucrative investment strategies. The [&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":[56,190,52,51,117,189,53,58,191,193,57,195,55,196,194,188,192],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-blue-jays","tag-chris-rodgers","tag-extensive-network","tag-government-regulators","tag-investment-arm","tag-investment-edge","tag-investment-partners","tag-long-time","tag-lucrative-investment","tag-polling-data","tag-private-research","tag-retail-sales","tag-sers","tag-signals","tag-uk-equity","tag-yahoo-inc","tag-yougov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","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=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}