{"id":8192,"date":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"iraqi-babylon-fund-maintains-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/iraqi-babylon-fund-maintains-in-june.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Babylon Fund Maintains in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- So far this summer, with only some slight exaggeration, Iraq could comparatively be portrayed as a stable, safe &amp; secure place, according to the Fact Sheet for June 2008 for the Iraqi Babylon Fund. <\/p>\n<p>Relative calmness characterized Babylon Fund&#8217;s performance in June, mainly trading&nbsp; sideway with a modest 0.6% performance in the red at closing. Most of the fund&#8217;s sectors, asset classes and portfolio holdings experienced calm waters, except for the internationally traded oil companies whose volatility increased significantly. <\/p>\n<p>The overall portfolio strategy has allowed the Iraqi fund to stay in positive territory through the year, with a +1.7% performance on a YTD basis. In anticipation of increased riskadjusted returns on the medium-term we continue to add to our Iraqi<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Fund is an open-ended mutual fund investing into large-cap Iraqi-dependant securities, mainly listed on the Iraqi stock exchange in Baghdad, but also in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/01\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/><strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites.<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- So far this summer, with only some slight exaggeration, Iraq could comparatively be portrayed as a stable, safe &amp; secure place, according to the Fact Sheet for June 2008 for the Iraqi Babylon Fund. Relative calmness [&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":[100,303,110,1694,264,698,1693,106,417,198],"class_list":["post-8192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-boston","tag-brokerages","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-harris-associates","tag-initial-offering","tag-investment-portfolio","tag-principal-risk","tag-prison-term","tag-staffers","tag-wagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","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=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}