{"id":8163,"date":"2008-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vcm-preps-trio-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/vcm-preps-trio-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"VCM Preps Trio of Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINalternatives- London-based VCM Fund Management is prepping a trio of hedge funds to invest in alternative energy, macro futures and emerging hedge fund managers. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The firm next month will launch two hedge funds in partnership with K2 Capital, the alternative energy hedge fund shop founded by former Vantage&nbsp;Derivatives head trader Andrew Swaine.&nbsp;First up, the firm will offer the VCM K2 Alternative Energy Segregated Portfolio, a thematic, global equity long\/short and derivatives trading strategy investing in companies positively affected by climate change with a specific focus on the energy sector. It uses a bottom-up approach to stock selection focusing on value companies in the long book, with an emphasis on large cap stocks. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&ldquo;The portfolio&rsquo;s large cap bias naturally creates a low volatility, which is further enhanced through protective hedging,&rdquo; said the firm.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/4977\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/4977\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/4977\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINalternatives- London-based VCM Fund Management is prepping a trio of hedge funds to invest in alternative energy, macro futures and emerging hedge fund managers. &nbsp;The firm next month will launch two hedge funds in partnership with K2 Capital, the alternative [&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":[1189,333,1623,197,652,1621,65,1197,1626,1620,1625,1624,1059,1080,417,1622],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-charge-interest","tag-doing-business","tag-global-bank","tag-housing-market","tag-japanese-equities","tag-joe-tracy","tag-june-14","tag-lavish-gifts","tag-leverage","tag-maerki-baumann","tag-options-trading","tag-qia","tag-red-tape","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-staffers","tag-thought-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","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=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}