{"id":8544,"date":"2008-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cqs-launches-160-mln-volatility-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/cqs-launches-160-mln-volatility-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"CQS launches $160 mln volatility hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund manager CQS said on Thursday it had launched a new fund that will aim to profit from the volatility that has gripped global stock markets for much of the past year.       <\/p>\n<p>CQS, which had $9.6 billion (5.4 billion pounds) of assets under management at the start of August, said it had launched CQS Global Volatility Fund with an initial size of US$160 million.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will use futures and options to trade volatility, with a primary focus on equity market indexes and on individual equities within the world&#8217;s major stock markets.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Fund aims to profit from valuation anomalies in equity volatility and from dislocations in markets. CQS believes that equity market volatility provides a consistent opportunity set to capture profits for investors,&quot; CQS said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/fundsNews\/idUKARO42983720080904?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=fundsNews\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Read Complete Article \">Read Complete Article&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund manager CQS said on Thursday it had launched a new fund that will aim to profit from the volatility that has gripped global stock markets for much of the past year. CQS, which had $9.6 billion [&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":[111,2526,2524,2052,1269,2469,2525,2527,944],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bastion","tag-compensation-package","tag-driss-ben-brahim","tag-ed-rogers","tag-ft-alphaville","tag-fund-managers-in-singapore","tag-scottish-widows","tag-share-index","tag-strategic-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","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=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}