{"id":8751,"date":"2008-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"wolver-hill-japan-hedge-fund-resists-slumping-topix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/wolver-hill-japan-hedge-fund-resists-slumping-topix.html","title":{"rendered":"Wolver Hill Japan Hedge Fund Resists Slumping Topix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Wolver Hill Japan Multi-Strategy Fund, run by Deutsche Bank AG&#8217;s former prime brokerage sales chief in Tokyo, resisted the worst month for the nation&#8217;s stocks in almost 15 years to be little changed in September.             <\/p>\n<p>The $11 million fund of hedge funds, which invests in 14 hedge funds with a combined $5.8 billion of assets, slipped 1.4 percent in September based on preliminary figures, said Ed Rogers, chief executive officer of Wolver Hill&#8217;s local advisory firm, Rogers Investment Advisors Y.K. The Topix index of 1,714 companies tumbled 13 percent.     <\/p>\n<p>Foreseeing a decline in equity prices, Wolver Hill made a shift during the past year into hedge funds that use trading- focused strategies, and away from so-called long-short funds that depend on rising and falling stock prices, Rogers said. Trading- focused funds, including so-called event-driven strategies, trade securities of companies going through events such as mergers, acquisitions and management changes.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601208&#038;sid=aDqV2Jcwrw6Y&#038;refer=finance\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Wolver Hill Japan Multi-Strategy Fund, run by Deutsche Bank AG&#8217;s former prime brokerage sales chief in Tokyo, resisted the worst month for the nation&#8217;s stocks in almost 15 years to be little changed in September. The $11 million [&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":[180,1161,1391,2052,2049,320,402,624,97,129,682,2964,95,949,1273,125,1490],"class_list":["post-8751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-accountant","tag-administrative-services","tag-collateralized-debt-obligations","tag-ed-rogers","tag-eurekahedge","tag-financial-professional","tag-investment-firm","tag-latin-america","tag-lengthy-prison-terms","tag-losses","tag-market-neutral-funds","tag-members-of-congress","tag-merrill","tag-michael-schulz","tag-new-york-times-co","tag-qualitative-assessment","tag-sam-zell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751","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=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}