{"id":9112,"date":"2008-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-assets-fell-151b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/hedge-fund-assets-fell-151b.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund assets fell $151b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Straits Times &#8211; Hedge fund assets fell by US$100 billion (S$151 billion) in October as investors withdrew their money and funds were forced to sell stock, exacerbating the severe volatility that pounded global markets during the month. <\/p>\n<p> About US$60 billion of the US$100 billion in asset losses during the month came from investor redemptions, according to a report on Wednesday released by Eurekahedge, a data and research provider. <\/p>\n<p> Hedge funds&#8217; assets totalled US$2.497 trillion at the end of the third quarter, according to HedgeFund.net, a hedge fund data provider. <\/p>\n<p> Hedge fund selling has widely cited as one of the reasons for the increase in volatility in equity and bond markets during October. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Money\/Story\/STIStory_301775.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straits Times &#8211; Hedge fund assets fell by US$100 billion (S$151 billion) in October as investors withdrew their money and funds were forced to sell stock, exacerbating the severe volatility that pounded global markets during the month. About US$60 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":[63,276,2713,1019,866,83,417,353,614,47,236],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-first-avenue","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-global-stock","tag-japan-inc","tag-levies","tag-medallion","tag-staffers","tag-stocks","tag-survey-respondents","tag-third-party","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","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=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}