{"id":5489,"date":"2007-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bgi-first-fund-of-hedge-fund-to-raise-1bln-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2007\/bgi-first-fund-of-hedge-fund-to-raise-1bln-in-18-months.html","title":{"rendered":"BGI&#8217;s first fund of hedge funds aims to raise $1 bln in first 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; <strong>Barclays<\/strong> Global Investors (BGI) is aiming to garner around 1 bln usd through the launch of its first global fund of hedge funds, according to a source close to the company.<\/p>\n<p>  AlpEx, which was launched at the end of 2006, is BGI&#8217;s first foray into external hedge fund of fund strategy.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8216;The fund aims to raise around 1 bln usd in the first eighteen months,&#8217; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8216;BGI will select individual external hedge funds through a unique selection criteria.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/feeds\/afx\/2007\/01\/03\/afx3294025.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is aiming to garner around 1 bln usd through the launch of its first global fund of hedge funds, according to a source close to the company. AlpEx, which was launched at the end [&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-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}