{"id":8666,"date":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-seen-switching-short-exposure-to-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/hedge-funds-seen-switching-short-exposure-to-retail.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds seen switching short exposure to retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211;  <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Hedge funds<\/span> are likely to increase short  exposure to retail stocks following a ban on short selling  financial shares imposed by UK and U.S. regulators, industry  insiders said on Friday.                                                 <\/p>\n<p>Equity long\/short and market <span class=\"yshortcuts\">neutral hedge funds<\/span> will be  among those most affected by the ban as short selling &#8212;  betting the price of a share will fall &#8212; is a key component of  their <span class=\"yshortcuts\">investment strategies<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>  Shorting financial stocks has been a popular trade among  hedge funds this year, but now they will be forced to switch  their attention to other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>  John Godden, of hedge fund consultant IGS Group, said:  &quot;Commodity and infrastructure providers are continuing to be  strong and showing signs of growth going forward. Some <span class=\"yshortcuts\">service  industries<\/span> are likely to be pretty heavily hit by a slowdown so  from a market neutral perspective, there&#8217;s your long and short  sectors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080919\/bs_nm\/hedge_short_retail_dc\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211; Hedge funds are likely to increase short exposure to retail stocks following a ban on short selling financial shares imposed by UK and U.S. regulators, industry insiders said on Friday. Equity long\/short and market neutral hedge funds [&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":[721,1755,2773,2775,879,52,117,44,1569,2774],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-all-ordinaries-index","tag-ameriprise","tag-australia-and-new-zealand-banking","tag-business-activity","tag-dubai","tag-extensive-network","tag-investment-arm","tag-invoices","tag-passport","tag-property-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","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=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}