{"id":10960,"date":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-manager-chris-hohn-donates-500m-to-his-wifes-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/hedge-fund-manager-chris-hohn-donates-500m-to-his-wifes-charity.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund manager Chris Hohn donates \u00a3500m to his wife&#8217;s charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; The secretive hedge fund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children&#8217;s charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The &pound;486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn&#8217;s hedge fund TCI in 2007, and beat the previous year&#8217;s donation of &pound;276m. The financier has now donated more than &pound;1bn in total, more than the gross domestic product of countries including Greenland and Antigua.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be given to the Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the charity that Hohn co-founded with his wife Jamie to help children in poor and developing countries, mostly in Africa, Asia and Central America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/jul\/05\/hohn-charity-donation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\" Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.co.uk &#8211; The secretive hedge fund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children&#8217;s charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday. The &pound;486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn&#8217;s hedge fund [&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":[13804,13805,5502,1762,325,4817,13806,5530,5775,37,13803,465,5902,1627,5427],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-africa-asia","tag-central-america","tag-charity","tag-chris-hohn","tag-developing-countries","tag-financier","tag-greenland","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-guardian","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-hefty-profits","tag-investment-fund","tag-philanthropist","tag-previous-year","tag-tci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","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=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}