{"id":7544,"date":"2008-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-eye-student-loan-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/hedge-funds-eye-student-loan-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds eye student loan market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico &#8211; Outside the Senate Banking Committee room Tuesday morning, the financial services lobbyists began lining up early for a hearing on an issue that rarely lures them out of their posh K Street offices: student loans.<\/p>\n<p>But now, some financial prognosticators see the struggling student loan market, hit by the same credit crunch that&rsquo;s battered Wall Street, as a potential moneymaker.<\/p>\n<p>According to several people familiar with the industry, as many as a dozen hedge funds &mdash; those secretive and lightly regulated pools of billions of dollars in investment capital &mdash; are watching intently to see if Congress cobbles together a rescue package that adds liquidity to the market for student-loan-backed securities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0408\/9673.html\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico &#8211; Outside the Senate Banking Committee room Tuesday morning, the financial services lobbyists began lining up early for a hearing on an issue that rarely lures them out of their posh K Street offices: student loans. But now, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544","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=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}