{"id":9856,"date":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-yorkville-spies-gap-in-loans-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/hedge-fund-yorkville-spies-gap-in-loans-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Yorkville spies gap in loans market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Yorkville Advisors, a $1 billion hedge fund, said it is stepping into the lending vacuum left by banks as it provides struggling firms with loans for up to two years, typically in the $5 million to $40 million range. <\/p>\n<p>More recently the value of the loans has increased as larger-cap companies seek assistance. At end-January, Yorkville loaned $147.9 million to shipping firm Ocean Freight Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The move is one way for hedge funds to thrive despite the global financial and economic crisis, and mirrors similar investments by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUKLB45283020090211\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Yorkville Advisors, a $1 billion hedge fund, said it is stepping into the lending vacuum left by banks as it provides struggling firms with loans for up to two years, typically in the $5 million to $40 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":[1570,411,4306,608,7355,1966,7354,1482,4650,131,7357,4326,7353,7358,3177,7356],"class_list":["post-9856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-billion","tag-5-million","tag-banks","tag-billionaire","tag-cap-companies","tag-economic-crisis","tag-freight-inc","tag-investments","tag-investor","tag-loans","tag-ocean-freight","tag-reuters","tag-shipping-firm","tag-vacuum","tag-warren-buffett","tag-yorkville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856","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=9856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}