{"id":23653,"date":"2011-07-22T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23653"},"modified":"2011-07-22T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:03:33","slug":"paulson-said-to-hire-hong-kong-specialist-after-sino-forest-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/paulson-said-to-hire-hong-kong-specialist-after-sino-forest-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson Said to Hire Hong Kong Specialist After Sino-Forest Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle &#8211; John Paulson said he will hire a specialist in Hong Kong for his $37 billion Paulson &amp; Co. hedge fund after losses tied to Sino-Forest Corp., according to two people briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sino-Forest, the Chinese forestry company accused by a short-seller of overstating timberland holdings, accounted for 2.5 percentage points of the 11 percent decline in the firm&#8217;s biggest fund in June, Paulson, 55, said on a conference call with investors yesterday, according to the people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/07\/21\/bloomberg1376-LOPEWR1A74E901-04JAPIUPGB4HIQU4KCO212QB7I.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle &#8211; John Paulson said he will hire a specialist in Hong Kong for his $37 billion Paulson &amp; Co. hedge fund after losses tied to Sino-Forest Corp., according to two people briefed on the matter. Sino-Forest, the Chinese forestry [&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-23653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653","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=23653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23655,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions\/23655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}