{"id":9974,"date":"2009-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-steer-clear-of-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/hedge-funds-steer-clear-of-eastern-europe.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Steer Clear Of Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; 2008 was a bad year for hedge funds that invested in Eastern Europe and Russia, forcing many to abandon the region. A month into the new year, they are still steering clear of the market and waiting for more attractive cheap buys to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Most funds are waiting to see what happens, looking for distressed asset opportunities toward the end of the year,&quot; said the director of a London-based hedge fund, which has been investing in the region. &quot;Potentially there are quite a few funds that could reorientate toward the region but mostly people are managing redemptions and waiting to see what happens,&quot; he told <em>Forbes<\/em>. According to the fund manager, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan&#8217;s industrial and resource sectors were likely to be among the first areas re-entered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/02\/24\/hedge-eastern-update-markets-equity_funds_23.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; 2008 was a bad year for hedge funds that invested in Eastern Europe and Russia, forcing many to abandon the region. A month into the new year, they are still steering clear of the market and waiting for [&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":[7890,4513,8192,3364,4715,4325,8190,5068,8191,8193],"class_list":["post-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-eastern-europe","tag-forbes","tag-kazakhstan","tag-london","tag-new-year","tag-redemptions","tag-resource-sectors","tag-russia","tag-s-industrial","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974","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=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}