{"id":8007,"date":"2008-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"wittenham-launches-hedge-fund-for-frontier-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/wittenham-launches-hedge-fund-for-frontier-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Wittenham launches hedge fund for frontier markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Singapore&#8217;s Wittenham Investment Management launched a fund of hedge funds to invest in frontier capital markets such as Africa, Middle East and countries in the former Soviet Union. \t <\/p>\n<p> The MENA Plus fund would start with a minimum $7 million seed capital and has a capacity to take as much as $300 million of funds from investors, said Peter Douglas, an adviser to the fund and founder of hedge fund consultancy GFIA.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;In the emerging Europe, Middle East, and African time zone, we&#8217;ve found plenty of experienced managers creating very attractive risk-return profiles,&quot; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/africa.reuters.com\/business\/news\/usnBAN123470.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Singapore&#8217;s Wittenham Investment Management launched a fund of hedge funds to invest in frontier capital markets such as Africa, Middle East and countries in the former Soviet Union. The MENA Plus fund would start with a minimum $7 million [&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":[137,1193,1192,494,693,1194,317,117,83,95,396,885,957,699],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-conference-call","tag-diversity","tag-double-benefit","tag-gas-investment","tag-good-managers","tag-industry-experts","tag-initial-capital","tag-investment-arm","tag-medallion","tag-merrill","tag-ploy","tag-rebound","tag-scarcity-of-capital","tag-volatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","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=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}