{"id":23215,"date":"2011-06-24T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23215"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:45:33","slug":"celebrity-hedge-fund-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/celebrity-hedge-fund-managers.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity hedge-fund managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; The superheroes of finance seem to have lost some of their powers. Several of the hedge-fund industry\u2019s most exalted names are beset by problems more associated with mere mortals. Take John Paulson of Paulson &amp; Co, a $37 billion hedge fund. He became famous after he bet against the housing bubble but is now in the limelight for less flattering reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Paulson was the largest shareholder in Sino-Forest, a Chinese forest-plantation operator accused of fraud by short-sellers earlier this month. Its share price plummeted and Mr Paulson sold his stake, dealing his fund a reputational blow and around $500m in losses. His flagship fund is down 20% so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18866831?story_id=18866831&amp;fsrc=rss\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; The superheroes of finance seem to have lost some of their powers. Several of the hedge-fund industry\u2019s most exalted names are beset by problems more associated with mere mortals. Take John Paulson of Paulson &amp; Co, 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-23215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215","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=23215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23217,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions\/23217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}