{"id":8312,"date":"2008-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dai-ichi-mutual-aims-to-lift-hedge-fund-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/dai-ichi-mutual-aims-to-lift-hedge-fund-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"Dai-ichi Mutual Aims to Lift Hedge Fund Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., with more than 30 trillion yen ($274 billion) in assets, will invest more money with hedge funds to safeguard returns as financial markets falter.             <\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based Dai-ichi Mutual, Japan&#8217;s second-largest life insurer, currently invests in more than 100 hedge funds as well as funds of hedge funds, Yuji Hirai, manager of the firm&#8217;s structured and alternative investment department, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. He declined to provide specific targets for hedge fund allocations.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to increase our allocation to hedge funds,&#8221; said Hirai, 40. &#8220;We&#8217;re in a difficult market, no doubt, but for hedge funds chasing absolute returns, this is the time to prove their outperformance.&#8221;     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601080&#038;sid=a5L1lZklawFE&#038;refer=asia\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., with more than 30 trillion yen ($274 billion) in assets, will invest more money with hedge funds to safeguard returns as financial markets falter. Tokyo-based Dai-ichi Mutual, Japan&#8217;s second-largest life insurer, currently invests [&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":[1890,673,276,402,496,1989,1988,129,1675,1987,1092,1628,1129,343,516,372],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-business-models","tag-carnage","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-investment-firm","tag-investment-vehicles","tag-isle-of-man","tag-life-insurer","tag-losses","tag-northwestern-mutual-life","tag-paul-schaeffer","tag-plunge","tag-samsung-life-insurance","tag-singapore","tag-spokeswoman","tag-stage-fund","tag-weather-derivatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","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=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}