{"id":10703,"date":"2009-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-hiring-it-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/hedge-funds-hiring-it-contractors.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds hiring IT contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancialCareers UK &#8211; Man Group has been spending freely on technology over the last year, and is expected to continue to do so going into 2010. To carry out the new projects, it&#8217;s been hiring an ever-growing team of contractors, a tactic other hedge funds are also employing. <\/p>\n<p> Operating costs amounted to $275m in the financial year to March 2009, and the hedge fund giant incurred a &quot;significant increase in technology costs&quot;, with projects being rolled out to &quot;increase the scalability and robustness of our infrastructure and to support the growth of our business in the future&quot;. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.efinancialcareers.co.uk\/newsandviews_item\/newsItemId-19270\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancialCareers UK &#8211; Man Group has been spending freely on technology over the last year, and is expected to continue to do so going into 2010. To carry out the new projects, it&#8217;s been hiring an ever-growing team of contractors, [&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":[12358,9960,11148,11708,1769,1749,12362,12361,12230,8768,12360,12359],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-efinancialcareers","tag-giant","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds","tag-infrastructure","tag-man-group","tag-new-projects","tag-robustness","tag-scalability","tag-tactic","tag-technology-costs","tag-uk-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}