{"id":12675,"date":"2009-10-27T06:27:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T10:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2009-10-27T06:27:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T10:27:35","slug":"hedge-fund-boxers-take-punches-for-charity-dodge-market-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/hedge-fund-boxers-take-punches-for-charity-dodge-market-blows.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Boxers Take Punches for Charity, Dodge Market Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Benoit \u201cLa Tornade\u201d Descourtieux, the second-oldest contender in Hong Kong\u2019s third annual Hedge Fund Fight Night for charity, finds it easy to draw a link between managing money and martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as we do well most of the time, or even if we don\u2019t do well but survive, we\u2019ll be OK,\u201d said the 46-year-old, Michael Douglas-lookalike in an interview at his 27th-floor office with a view of workers unloading cargo ships at Victoria Harbour. Descourtieux manages the Calypso Asia Fund, which bets on rising and falling stock prices and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=aEMuKo7PZJ8A\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Benoit \u201cLa Tornade\u201d Descourtieux, the second-oldest contender in Hong Kong\u2019s third annual Hedge Fund Fight Night for charity, finds it easy to draw a link between managing money and martial arts. \u201cAs long as we do well most [&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":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","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=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12676,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}