{"id":8367,"date":"2008-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tokio-marine-makes-gradual-shift-to-hedge-funds-as-prices-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/tokio-marine-makes-gradual-shift-to-hedge-funds-as-prices-drop.html","title":{"rendered":"Tokio Marine Makes Gradual Shift to Hedge Funds as Prices Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. will shift more of its 11 trillion yen ($100 billion) in assets to hedge funds and scour the globe for bargains as the credit squeeze forces down prices.             <\/p>\n<p>Tokio Marine &amp; Nichido Fire Insurance Co., a unit of Japan&#8217;s biggest casualty insurer, may boost its investments in hedge funds by as much as 30 billion yen annually, said Fumihiro Nakajima, who runs the firm&#8217;s hedge fund investment group. The insurer has almost 200 billion yen in this asset class, he said.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to gradually increase hedge funds investments,&#8221; said Nakajima, 44, in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. &#8220;In the wake of subprime loan problems, there will be an opportunity to invest in hedge funds that invest in the credit market,&#8221; including high-yield bonds and credit-default swaps.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601203&#038;sid=aOynYFPuzvQQ&#038;refer=insurance\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. will shift more of its 11 trillion yen ($100 billion) in assets to hedge funds and scour the globe for bargains as the credit squeeze forces down prices. Tokio Marine &amp; Nichido Fire Insurance [&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":[718,761,276,1906,402,131,129,975,2133,81,2132,1092,149,176,1129],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-arpad","tag-asian-strategy","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-fund-business","tag-investment-firm","tag-loans","tag-losses","tag-market-exposure","tag-mate","tag-newcastle","tag-philadelphia-consolidated-holding-corp","tag-plunge","tag-proceeds","tag-raising-money","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","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=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}