{"id":20118,"date":"2011-01-24T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20118"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:36:46","slug":"williams-taps-hedge-fund-experience-at-helm-of-florida-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/williams-taps-hedge-fund-experience-at-helm-of-florida-pension.html","title":{"rendered":"Williams taps hedge fund experience at helm of Florida pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; Ashbel C. Williams Jr. is possibly the only former hedge fund manager now leading a major pension fund. He was hired as executive director and chief investment officer of the\u00a0Florida State Board of Administration in 2008 directly from New York-based Fir Tree Partners, where he was responsible for investor relations and business development.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has led the FSBA to make its first hedge fund investments, just as years ago when, working as a Florida legislative aide, he was instrumental in the FSBA making its first equity allocation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20110124\/FACETOFACE\/301249999\/1021\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; Ashbel C. Williams Jr. is possibly the only former hedge fund manager now leading a major pension fund. He was hired as executive director and chief investment officer of the\u00a0Florida State Board of Administration in 2008 [&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-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","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=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20119,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions\/20119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}