{"id":5913,"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-fund-firm-odey-eyes-pension-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/hedge-fund-firm-odey-eyes-pension-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund firm Odey eyes pension assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  London &#8211; Odey Asset Management, the hedge fund firm set up by high-profile manager Crispin Odey, plans to launch a range of new funds and hopes to capitalise on growing demand from pension schemes,  its chief executive told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>  David Stewart said that the group, which manages $4.25 billion (2.15 billion pounds) in assets, hopes to launch a European hedge fund. This will sit alongside the existing $550 million Odey  European fund, run by Odey himself, but have less invested outside Europe.<\/p>\n<p>  The new fund will either be run by Feras Al-Chalabi, who took on the 308 million-pound Odey Continental European fund after top-performing manager Hugh Hendry left in 2005 to set up his own firm,  Eclectica Asset Management, or by a new manager.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/reuters\/UKFundsNews?a=BMHDa2\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/reuters\/UKFundsNews?i=BMHDa2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/106783317\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/106783317\/idUKNOA52650520070405\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London &#8211; Odey Asset Management, the hedge fund firm set up by high-profile manager Crispin Odey, plans to launch a range of new funds and hopes to capitalise on growing demand from pension schemes, its chief executive told Reuters. David [&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-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}