{"id":8217,"date":"2008-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-do-the-singapore-sling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/hedge-funds-do-the-singapore-sling.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds do the Singapore sling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FT Alphaville- New figures from Singapore&rsquo;s central bank bear out the (abundant) anecdotal evidence of the quickening exodus of Asia-focused hedge funds out of Japan and elsewhere and into Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports that assets managed by fund managers in Singapore grew 32 per cent to S$1,173bn ($862bn) last year, driven by a doubling in assets held by hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Assets managed by hedge fund managers in Singapore doubled to close to S$80bn in the year, while the number of hedge fund firms in Singapore increased by more than 50 per cent to almost 300, according to the island state&rsquo;s Monetary Authority. Meanwhile institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, foundations, companies and financial institutions accounted for 43 per cent of the funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/14758\/hedge-funds-do-the-singapore-sling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT Alphaville- New figures from Singapore&rsquo;s central bank bear out the (abundant) anecdotal evidence of the quickening exodus of Asia-focused hedge funds out of Japan and elsewhere and into Singapore. Reuters reports that assets managed by fund managers in Singapore [&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":[67,678,666,517,1777,197,129,1774,1776,603,524,1775,340,343,991],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chief-executive","tag-domicile","tag-endowment","tag-founding-partners","tag-frank-russell","tag-housing-market","tag-losses","tag-medium-term","tag-patti-cook","tag-poor-performance","tag-portfolio-managers","tag-roiled","tag-savings-and-loan-crisis","tag-spokeswoman","tag-wrong-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","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=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}