{"id":23735,"date":"2011-07-27T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2011-07-27T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T10:25:32","slug":"hedge-fund-chief-ruddock-gives-millions-to-charity-shuns-spotlight-at-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/hedge-fund-chief-ruddock-gives-millions-to-charity-shuns-spotlight-at-va.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Chief Ruddock Gives Millions to Charity, Shuns Spotlight at V&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Paul Ruddock was eight when, on a visit to London\u2019s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, he came across a boarded-up room of sculpture casts.  \u201cI remember looking through a chink in the plywood, seeing Trajan\u2019s Column, and just being blown away,\u201d says Ruddock.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Ruddock, 52, is co-founder and chief executive of London-based Lansdowne Partners Ltd. and the V&amp;A\u2019s chairman. He is worth 270 million pounds ($443 million) according to the Sunday Times Rich List, a figure he won\u2019t disagree with. Lansdowne is one of Europe\u2019s largest hedge-fund companies, with $14.4 billion under management, though, he says, it\u2019s having \u201ca tough year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-26\/hedge-fund-chief-ruddock-gives-millions-to-charity-shuns-spotlight-at-v-a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Paul Ruddock was eight when, on a visit to London\u2019s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, he came across a boarded-up room of sculpture casts. \u201cI remember looking through a chink in the plywood, seeing Trajan\u2019s Column, and just being [&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-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","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=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23736,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions\/23736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}