{"id":8379,"date":"2008-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"living-on-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/living-on-the-hedge.html","title":{"rendered":"Living on the hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business24-7 &#8211; With the UAE stock markets in turmoil it is vital investors re-examine their portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>This week the Abu Dhabi and Dubai stock exchanges suffered their worst trading sessions for almost seven months while Dh65 billion has been wiped off their value in August alone.<\/p>\n<p>Now a number of financial advisors are urging investors to diversify their portfolios more than ever in a bid to ride out these dips rather than face massive losses.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the United States, for instance, who invested all their money in property are now reeling as a result of the credit crunch.<\/p>\n<p>Even hedge funds, which are specifically designed to minimise investor risk, have attracted criticism and piled up some big losses.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2008\/8\/Pages\/08152008_b2a069ffdb37440ab7acb701b76744a0.aspx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2008\/8\/Pages\/08152008_b2a069ffdb37440ab7acb701b76744a0.aspx\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.business24-7.ae\/Articles\/2008\/8\/Pages\/08152008_b2a069ffdb37440ab7acb701b76744a0.aspx\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business24-7 &#8211; With the UAE stock markets in turmoil it is vital investors re-examine their portfolios. This week the Abu Dhabi and Dubai stock exchanges suffered their worst trading sessions for almost seven months while Dh65 billion has been wiped [&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":[1342,87,2167,509,280,2169,1673,1749,829,83,2168,47,1520],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alternative-energy","tag-angela-merkel","tag-collateral-requirements","tag-federal-reserve","tag-global-economy","tag-handover","tag-ipic","tag-man-group","tag-market-timing","tag-medallion","tag-russian-officials","tag-third-party","tag-top-hedge-fund-earners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}