{"id":12007,"date":"2009-09-21T04:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T08:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2009-09-21T04:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T08:49:18","slug":"uks-first-hedge-fund-billionaire-bankrolls-senior-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/uks-first-hedge-fund-billionaire-bankrolls-senior-conservatives.html","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s first hedge fund billionaire bankrolls senior Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Alan Howard, a former comprehensive school pupil, is the architect of the biggest hedge fund in Europe and is using his wealth to help leading members of the Conservative party.<\/p>\n<p>Howard, 46, a taker of calculated risks who, for fun, sledges down the Alps in the dark wearing a miner\u2019s headtorch, is Britain\u2019s first hedge-fund billionaire, according to calculations by the compiler of The Sunday Times Rich List.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of overall wealth he is not far behind Lord Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the Conservatives, who has a \u00a31.1 billion fortune and has loaned the party \u00a33.6m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Alan Howard, a former comprehensive school pupil, is the architect of the biggest hedge fund in Europe and is using his wealth to help leading members of the Conservative party. Howard, 46, a taker of calculated risks [&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":[15741],"class_list":["post-12007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge-fund-billionaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007","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=12007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}