{"id":19822,"date":"2011-01-06T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2011-01-06T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T11:45:28","slug":"ta-associates-bets-on-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/ta-associates-bets-on-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"TA Associates Bets On Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Private equity and hedge funds have been converging for some time.\u00a0But unlike Blackstone Group LP, which manages funds of hedge funds as a business line, TA Associates Inc.\u00a0has delved into hedge fund-of-funds through a portfolio investment, taking a minority investment in Evanston Capital Management LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Evanston Capital was founded 2002 by David Wagner, former chief investment officer of Northwestern University. The Evanston, Ill., firm manages about $4.2 billion of assets across two open-ended funds, which invest in about 30 hedge funds with various strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/privateequity\/2011\/01\/05\/ta-associates-bets-on-hedge-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Private equity and hedge funds have been converging for some time.\u00a0But unlike Blackstone Group LP, which manages funds of hedge funds as a business line, TA Associates Inc.\u00a0has delved into hedge fund-of-funds through a portfolio investment, taking a [&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-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","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=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19823,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}