{"id":18486,"date":"2010-10-26T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2010-10-26T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T10:42:40","slug":"buffett-taps-fund-manager-to-oversee-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/buffett-taps-fund-manager-to-oversee-portfolio.html","title":{"rendered":"Buffett taps fund manager to oversee portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; Berkshire Hathaway has hired a relatively unknown hedge fund manager to manage a &#8220;significant portion&#8221; of the investment portfolio built by its founder, legendary investor Warren E. Buffett.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement Monday that it has named Todd Combs, 39, as an investment manager. For three years, Buffett and Vice Chairman Charles Munger &#8220;have been looking for someone of Todd&#8217;s caliber to handle a significant portion of Berkshire&#8217;s investment portfolio,&#8221; Buffett said in the statement. &#8220;We are delighted that Todd will be joining us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/25\/AR2010102505632.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; Berkshire Hathaway has hired a relatively unknown hedge fund manager to manage a &#8220;significant portion&#8221; of the investment portfolio built by its founder, legendary investor Warren E. Buffett. The company said in a statement Monday that it [&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-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","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=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18487,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions\/18487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}