{"id":9128,"date":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"malaysia-eyes-islamic-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/malaysia-eyes-islamic-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia eyes Islamic hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Malaysia is working on a plan to allow the creation of Islamic hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is now in the developmental stage,&#8221; Goh Ching Yin, an executive director at the Securities Commission, was quoted as saying by Business Times newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#8217;s no timeline, but we are making good progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the plan could get off the ground next year, depending on market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds&#8217; bets on falling share prices have been blamed for contributing to the near-collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns, the demise of Lehman Brothers and for a sharp drop in financial stocks in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/business\/malaysia-eyes-islamic-hedge-funds-20081114-66vl.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Malaysia is working on a plan to allow the creation of Islamic hedge funds. &quot;It is now in the developmental stage,&#8221; Goh Ching Yin, an executive director at the Securities Commission, was quoted as saying by Business Times [&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":[1476,1755,546,932,134,1132,117,96,3726,421,439],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-ambiguity","tag-ameriprise","tag-bias","tag-current-trends","tag-eliot-spitzer","tag-executive-suite","tag-investment-arm","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings","tag-notice-period","tag-nutmeg","tag-sumitomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","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=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}