{"id":7864,"date":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-may-be-forced-to-sell-bonds-debt-assets-ecb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/hedge-funds-may-be-forced-to-sell-bonds-debt-assets-ecb-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds May Be Forced to Sell Bonds, Debt Assets, ECB Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Hedge funds may be forced to sell bonds and asset-backed debt amid tighter lending standards and poor returns, the European Central Bank said in its six-monthly Financial Stability Review. <\/p>\n<p>Volatile financial markets, investor redemptions and difficulties meeting margin calls have resulted in a &#8220;challenging period&#8221; for the $1.9 trillion industry and that will continue, the ECB said in the report published today. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some leveraged credit-focused hedge funds have been particularly badly hit,&#8221; the ECB said. &#8220;Moreover, many hedge funds still remained vulnerable to tougher lending stances of prime brokers and a further deterioration in financial markets. Further de-leveraging and forced sales in credit and other asset markets cannot be excluded.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601208&#038;sid=aeK4B_9Tt14M&#038;refer=finance\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Hedge funds may be forced to sell bonds and asset-backed debt amid tighter lending standards and poor returns, the European Central Bank said in its six-monthly Financial Stability Review. Volatile financial markets, investor redemptions and difficulties meeting margin calls [&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":[749,179,747,63,276,748],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-abbey","tag-best-performing-funds","tag-commodity-markets","tag-first-avenue","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-traditional-managers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","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=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}