{"id":8679,"date":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"uk-shorting-ban-could-help-rival-hedge-fund-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/uk-shorting-ban-could-help-rival-hedge-fund-centres.html","title":{"rendered":"UK shorting ban could help rival hedge fund centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211; Britain&#8217;s temporary ban on short-selling financial stocks is irksome for London&#8217;s hedge funds and is another factor which could help undermine the city&#8217;s pre-eminent position in Europe as a hedge fund base.       <\/p>\n<p>Short-selling is a key trading strategy for hedge funds as they aim to profit regardless of whether a stock is rising or falling, but London&#8217;s curbs come as rival centres seek to attract hedge funds to bolster their financial sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Scandinavia have all begun to emerge as alternative options for hedge funds looking for lower tax and a higher quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The European industry could follow the U.S. model and develop in a number of regional centres, although London&#8217;s upmarket St James&#8217;s and Mayfair districts are likely to remain the heart of the industry in Europe for at least the time being.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/397336793\/idUKCAS95726620080919\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211; Britain&#8217;s temporary ban on short-selling financial stocks is irksome for London&#8217;s hedge funds and is another factor which could help undermine the city&#8217;s pre-eminent position in Europe as a hedge fund base. Short-selling is a key trading [&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":[1024,1755,72,2807,314,2809,117,2805,1625,2806,353,71,2808],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-million","tag-ameriprise","tag-bankruptcies","tag-channel-islands","tag-finance","tag-harry-potter","tag-investment-arm","tag-marketing-collateral","tag-options-trading","tag-sebi","tag-stocks","tag-uma-thurman","tag-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","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=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}