{"id":4313,"date":"2006-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"deeper-asian-markets-attract-hedge-funds-reutersuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/deeper-asian-markets-attract-hedge-funds-reutersuk.html","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Asian markets attract hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters.uk &#8211; Hedge funds&#8217; focus on investment opportunities in China and Asia are a clear sign of growing liquidity and depth of the region&#8217;s stock markets, Baring Asset Management said in a releaseon Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  Baring is confident that there is sufficient capability to short sell stocks in Asia, which is attractive to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;There are currently 229 stocks to short in Hong Kong and China, and more if one looks beyond those markets,&#8221; said Khiem Do, manager of the Baring China Absolute Return Fund.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Borrowing costs are reasonable outside the very smallest companies, with a degree of transparency which is as good as any in the Western world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/Funds\/FundsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DfundsNews%26storyID%3D2006-04-25T073551Z_01_NOA527286_RTRUKOC_0_FINANCIAL-HEDGE-ASIA.xml&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=xdRNRJnnE5fMHP_X-OoK\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters.uk &#8211; Hedge funds&#8217; focus on investment opportunities in China and Asia are a clear sign of growing liquidity and depth of the region&#8217;s stock markets, Baring Asset Management said in a releaseon Monday. Baring is confident that there is [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}