{"id":7924,"date":"2008-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"how-to-make-hedge-funds-comply-with-islamic-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/how-to-make-hedge-funds-comply-with-islamic-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"How to make hedge funds comply with Islamic rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Financial Times- Hedge funds are at the heart of a debate raging between Islamic scholars over whether their practices &ndash; particularly short-selling &ndash; can be squared with prohibitions on paying interest and on <\/span><em>gharar<\/em><span>, sales where the value is uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Followers of Islam have increasingly managed to square these injunctions with buying bonds structured to avoid paying interest, with bank accounts and with mortgages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7cba2856-3d60-11dd-bbb5-0000779fd2ac.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times- Hedge funds are at the heart of a debate raging between Islamic scholars over whether their practices &ndash; particularly short-selling &ndash; can be squared with prohibitions on paying interest and on gharar, sales where the value is uncertain. [&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-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","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=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}