{"id":653,"date":"2007-05-24T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/24\/falling-off-the-hedge\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:43:59","slug":"falling-off-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/24\/falling-off-the-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling off the hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell there's a financial crisis coming. The world is so awash with cash that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/e96d7db0-097a-11dc-a349-000b5df10621,_i_nbePage=a13e8bec-3037-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\" target=\"_blank\">FT reports<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A hedge fund investing in old violins has been pledged $11m (\u00a35.5m) in the latest sign of investor willingness to put money into offbeat assets that were previously the exclusive domain of collectors and enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Leonhard, a London-based violin dealer and restorer, is aiming to start investing the Fine Violins Fund once it has raised $50m, with a target of returning 8 per cent to 12 per cent a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I've got nothing at all against fine violins. But this attempt to commoditise anything and everything is a sign of a market in need of a fundamental correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell there&#8217;s a financial crisis coming. The world is so awash with cash that the FT reports that: A hedge fund investing in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/24\/falling-off-the-hedge\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}