{"id":13196,"date":"2009-12-02T08:08:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:12:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:12:35","slug":"old-lane-founders-launch-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2009\/old-lane-founders-launch-new.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Lane Founders Launch $300 Million Equities Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; In one of this years biggest U.S. based hedge fund launches, four of the founders of the now defunct Citigroup hedge fund, Old Lane, have a new start up hedge fund, Meru Capital Group.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund has some $300 million in capital, the Wall Street Journal reports. Meru started trading on December 1st with a large chunk of the partner&#8217;s own funds, up to $75 million, according to some reports.<\/p>\n<p>The New York based hedge fund invests in derivatives, equities, fixed-income, and currencies. It plans to move in and out of positions quickly, with no single investment accounting for more than 5% of the fund\u2019s assets, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <br \/>Editor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; In one of this years biggest U.S. based hedge fund launches, four of the founders of the now defunct Citigroup hedge fund, Old Lane, have a new start up hedge fund, Meru Capital Group. The hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","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=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13198,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions\/13198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}