{"id":11542,"date":"2009-09-01T02:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11542"},"modified":"2009-09-01T02:15:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:15:44","slug":"bad-boy-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/bad-boy-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad Boy of Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Polygon&#8217;s Reade Griffith is a poster child for what&#8217;s wrong with the hedge fund industry these days.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Griffith, heading into a disastrous year where he wound up losing 48%, gated investors, barring them from yanking out their money. Now he is getting the word out that he is trying to raise money for two new hedge funds, a Convertible Opportunity Fund and the European Equity Opportunity Fund. The funds, Griffith said in a recent letter to investors, have been launched with partner and employee capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/09\/01\/polygon-reade-griffith-markets-equities-streetwise.html?FORM=ZZNR2\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Polygon&#8217;s Reade Griffith is a poster child for what&#8217;s wrong with the hedge fund industry these days. A year ago, Griffith, heading into a disastrous year where he wound up losing 48%, gated investors, barring them from yanking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4513,11148,11708,4504,9125],"class_list":["post-11542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-forbes","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investors","tag-opportunity-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}