{"id":9103,"date":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-could-help-finance-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/hedge-funds-could-help-finance-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds could help finance growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers could play a key role in jump starting the ailing U.S. economy if Washington offers them appropriate tax breaks, a prominent hedge fund industry lawyer said on Tuesday.       <\/p>\n<p>Sitting on billions of dollars in cash, dozens of hedge funds are looking for investments at the same time cash- strapped small and mid-sized companies search for new money to help them stay in business.<\/p>\n<p>Together these unlikely partners could find a way to escape a debilitating liquidity crisis that threatens to push the country further into its deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Perrie Weiner, a partner at law firm DLA Piper told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is a way out, but the answer lies not with the current government rescue plan, but rather with hedge funds,&quot; Weiner, who advises dozens of hedge funds as international co-chair of DLA Piper&#8217;s Securities Litigation group said one day before speaking about the topic at an industry conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/innovationNews\/idUSTRE4AA87Y20081111\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers could play a key role in jump starting the ailing U.S. economy if Washington offers them appropriate tax breaks, a prominent hedge fund industry lawyer said on Tuesday. Sitting on billions of dollars in cash, [&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":[3686,3687,998,1844,197,3688,3685,117,551,716,3353,393,149,3333,719,2593,3689],"class_list":["post-9103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-civil-engineer","tag-classified-information","tag-complexity","tag-contagion","tag-housing-market","tag-international-co","tag-international-investment-banks","tag-investment-arm","tag-mayhem","tag-pariah","tag-personal-friend","tag-proceedings","tag-proceeds","tag-sec-investor","tag-trimtabs","tag-u-s-treasury","tag-weiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103","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=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}