{"id":10864,"date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-cantillon-closing-converting-to-long-only-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-fund-cantillon-closing-converting-to-long-only-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Cantillon Closing: Converting to Long Only Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; William von Mueffling&#8217;s Cantillon Capital Management will be closing down the hedge fund portion of its business. The fund will wind down its positions except for $1 billion worth of long positions as it reverts to a long-only shop. We&#8217;ve not covered Cantillon in our portfolio tracking series before, but von Mueffling is quite a prominent name in the industry. <\/p>\n<p>His firm had $10 billion assets at its peak and more recently had around $3.5 billion assets under management. He founded the firm in 2003 after leaving Lazard, where he helped build up the investment house&#8217;s hedge fund business. Like many of the long\/short equity hedge funds we track, Cantillon is a stock picking firm.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/144373-hedge-fund-cantillon-closing-converting-to-long-only-fund\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/144373-hedge-fund-cantillon-closing-converting-to-long-only-fund\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; William von Mueffling&#8217;s Cantillon Capital Management will be closing down the hedge fund portion of its business. The fund will wind down its positions except for $1 billion worth of long positions as it reverts to a [&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":[1570,1007,13321,5185,13323,1906,11148,11708,583,4528,4532,336,13322],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-billion","tag-assets-under-management","tag-cantillon-capital-management","tag-equity-hedge","tag-fund-portion","tag-fund-business","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds","tag-lazard","tag-long-short-equity","tag-seeking-alpha","tag-stock","tag-william-von-mueffling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","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=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}