{"id":23464,"date":"2011-07-12T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23464"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:16:44","slug":"wall-street-legend-aims-to-strike-pay-dirt-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/wall-street-legend-aims-to-strike-pay-dirt-in-ontario.html","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street legend aims to strike pay dirt in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe And Mail &#8211; Seth Klarman is considered one of the world\u2019s money managing impresarios, a superb value investor whose record of outsized returns has given him cult status on Wall Street.\u00a0What interests him now might be a surprise: rocks and spuds in a rural Ontario backwater.<\/p>\n<p>While typical hedge funds flip stocks, commodities, and complex financial derivatives, Mr. Klarman\u2019s Baupost Group has taken a position that is more down to earth, literally. It\u2019s invested in Highland Companies, Ontario\u2019s largest potato grower, which recently proposed developing a mega quarry on part of its sprawling spud lands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/investment-ideas\/wall-street-legend-aims-to-strike-pay-dirt-in-ontario\/article2093919\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe And Mail &#8211; Seth Klarman is considered one of the world\u2019s money managing impresarios, a superb value investor whose record of outsized returns has given him cult status on Wall Street.\u00a0What interests him now might be a surprise: rocks [&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-23464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464","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=23464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23465,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions\/23465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}