{"id":7566,"date":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mobius-in-talks-for-iraq-private-equity-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/mobius-in-talks-for-iraq-private-equity-investment.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobius in talks for Iraq private equity investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Influential emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday that he was in talks for private equity investments in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are looking at private equity in Iraq and are meeting with representatives in Iraq. There are smaller companies in manufacturing, the services and food industries that are keen for investment,&quot; Mobius told Reuters over the telephone from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Mobius, who oversees about $40 billion (20 billion pounds) in emerging markets assets at the Templeton Asset Management arm of Franklin Resources Inc. said the liquidity in the country&#8217;s stock market remained too poor for listed equity investments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/274526954\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/274526954\/idUKNOA12738520080421\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Influential emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday that he was in talks for private equity investments in Iraq. &quot;We are looking at private equity in Iraq and are meeting with representatives in Iraq. There [&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-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","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=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}