{"id":11168,"date":"2009-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hsbcs-maldonado-blends-science-with-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/hsbcs-maldonado-blends-science-with-art.html","title":{"rendered":"HSBC&#8217;s Maldonado blends science with art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; HSBC&#8217;s Bill Maldonado is a man who loves to mix science with art &#8212; be that in running the Halbis hedge fund business, riding his high-powered Ducati motorbike on a race track or piloting a light aircraft.       <\/p>\n<p>An Oxford doctor in laser physics who trod the well-worn path from academia to high finance, Maldonado resisted the obvious choice of becoming a quant, writing computer programmes for trading strategies &#8212; instead opting to transfer his number-crunching skills into a more &quot;front office&quot; role in fund management.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been impressive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgeFundsNews\/idUSLNE57200V20090803\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; HSBC&#8217;s Bill Maldonado is a man who loves to mix science with art &#8212; be that in running the Halbis hedge fund business, riding his high-powered Ducati motorbike on a race track or piloting a light aircraft. An [&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":[14875,5895,1906,11148,4426,2231,14870,14872,14874,14873,14876,4326,14877,7101,14871],"class_list":["post-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-academia","tag-fund-management","tag-fund-business","tag-hedge-fund","tag-high-finance","tag-hsbc","tag-laser-physics","tag-light-aircraft","tag-motorbike","tag-number-crunching","tag-oxford","tag-reuters","tag-science","tag-trading-strategies","tag-worn-path"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","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=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}