{"id":21263,"date":"2011-03-17T08:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21263"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:32:55","slug":"life-of-a-hedge-fund-informant-easy-or-nerve-wracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/life-of-a-hedge-fund-informant-easy-or-nerve-wracking.html","title":{"rendered":"Life of a hedge fund informant, easy or nerve-wracking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce Finance &#8211; What to make of Anil Kumar? He seemingly had it all as a respected consultant at McKinsey &amp; Co. And yet he had some nugget of insecurity, so it seems, that made him easy picking for the likes of Raj Rajaratnam, the alleged mastermind of a massive insider trading scheme. Sure, Kumar was financially motivated, he got a secret six-figure salary from Rajaratnam and a $1 million bonus when one of his tips panned out for the fund.<\/p>\n<p>But his testimony suggests a certain personality type&#8211;a classic pleaser perhaps. He so ardently wanted to please Rajaratnam, who played him like a fiddle. He knew how to play him up as a hero as well as signal his disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercefinance.com\/story\/life-hedge-fund-informant-easy-or-nerve-wracking\/2011-03-16\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce Finance &#8211; What to make of Anil Kumar? He seemingly had it all as a respected consultant at McKinsey &amp; Co. And yet he had some nugget of insecurity, so it seems, that made him easy picking for the [&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-21263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263","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=21263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21264,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions\/21264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}