{"id":13260,"date":"2009-12-07T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2009-12-07T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:50:18","slug":"hedge-funds%e2%80%99-scholarly-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2009\/hedge-funds%e2%80%99-scholarly-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds\u2019 Scholarly Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Their company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts \u2014 members of a field known for secrecy \u2014 preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s. Balancing drinks on easels adorned with students\u2019 colorful drawings, they juggled PDA\u2019s and business cards, before sitting down to poker tables to raise money for New York City charter schools, The New York Times\u2019s Nancy Haas writes.<\/p>\n<p>Working the room, the evening\u2019s hosts, John Petry and Joel Greenblatt, who are partners in the hedge fund Gotham Capital, had an agenda: to identify new candidates to join their Success Charter Network, a cause they embrace with all the fervor of social reformers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/07\/hedge-funds-scholarly-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Their company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts \u2014 members of a field known for secrecy \u2014 preferred it. They filled the party space at the W [&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-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","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=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13261,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}