{"id":25042,"date":"2011-09-30T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25042"},"modified":"2011-09-30T06:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:05:20","slug":"metals-fund-red-kite-flies-high-as-copper-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/metals-fund-red-kite-flies-high-as-copper-crashes.html","title":{"rendered":"Metals fund Red Kite flies high as copper crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; It was a long wait, but the world&#8217;s most renowned metals traders Michael Farmer and David Lilley are finally profiting from a big, bearish bet on copper, trouncing rival hedge funds with a nearly 50 percent gain this year.<\/p>\n<p>The $1 billion Red Kite Metals fund has returned close to 20 percent for each of the past two months as copper prices fall to their lowest in a year, industry sources familiar with the fund&#8217;s positions told Reuters. That would comfortably rank it among the best-performing\u00a0commodity funds this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/29\/businesspro-us-metals-hedgefund-redkite-idUSTRE78S6EQ20110929\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; It was a long wait, but the world&#8217;s most renowned metals traders Michael Farmer and David Lilley are finally profiting from a big, bearish bet on copper, trouncing rival hedge funds with a nearly 50 percent gain this [&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-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","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=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25043,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}