{"id":5912,"date":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-hit-the-spot-in-japan-ft-alphaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/hedge-funds-hit-the-spot-in-japan-ft-alphaville.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds hit the spot in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Investing in hedge funds by wealthy Japanese more than doubled in the year to last March, according to an authoritative survey from Japan\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s financial watchdog, <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/7c4c77d2-e700-11db-9034-000b5df10621.html\" title=\"ft\">report<\/a>s the FT.<\/p>\n<p>  The report, issued this week by the Financial Services Agency, also showed a healthy 41 per cent increase in all hedge fund sales by financial institutions. It comes at a time when renewed  weakening of the yen is bound to fuel Japanese appetite for the yen carry trade, much of it among individual investors.<\/p>\n<p>  The survey, which carries the stamp of government authority, should help end scepticism among some analysts about the success of hedge funds in Japan, even though the data is more than a year  old.The results of previous surveys, difficult to conduct because of the secrecy of the hedge fund industry, have been questioned by analysts, some of whom have cast doubt on whether hedge funds  have gained a genuine foothold in the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s second-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/3715\/hedge-funds-hit-the-spot-in-japan\/&amp;cid=1115170386&amp;ei=gYcbRtjkM5bsqgPvzu2dCQ\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in hedge funds by wealthy Japanese more than doubled in the year to last March, according to an authoritative survey from Japan\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s financial watchdog, reports the FT. The report, issued this week by the Financial Services Agency, also showed [&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-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}