{"id":20102,"date":"2011-01-24T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20102"},"modified":"2011-01-24T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:24:27","slug":"trading-probe-reveals-the-temptations-for-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/trading-probe-reveals-the-temptations-for-experts.html","title":{"rendered":"Trading probe reveals the temptations for &#8216;experts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Expert network firms, currently the focus of a major U.S. insider trading investigation, have never had to work too hard to find midlevel corporate executives willing to moonlight as paid consultants.<\/p>\n<p>With consultants earning anywhere from $200 to $1,000 an hour for a meeting with hedge fund traders, working for an expert network firm &#8212; an intermediary company that matches industry consultants with hedge funds &#8212; is an easy way for an executive to pad his bank account.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLNE70N01520110124\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Expert network firms, currently the focus of a major U.S. insider trading investigation, have never had to work too hard to find midlevel corporate executives willing to moonlight as paid consultants. With consultants earning anywhere from $200 to [&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-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","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=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20104,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions\/20104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}