{"id":25978,"date":"2011-11-14T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25978"},"modified":"2011-11-14T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:31:31","slug":"circle-health-%e2%80%93-the-social-enterprise-run-by-the-worlds-hardest-hedge-fund-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/circle-health-%e2%80%93-the-social-enterprise-run-by-the-worlds-hardest-hedge-fund-managers.html","title":{"rendered":"Circle Health \u2013 the &#8216;social enterprise&#8217; run by the world&#8217;s hardest hedge fund managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Circle Health \u2013 the company that last week became the first private healthcare operator to take over the running of an\u00a0NHS\u00a0district general hospital \u2013 has variously been described as a &#8220;John Lewis-style mutual&#8221;, a &#8220;third-sector provider&#8221;, and a &#8220;social enterprise majority owned by employees&#8221;. It is none of these things.<\/p>\n<p>If it were, it would not have attracted about \u00a3120m of investment from highly astute and profit-driven venture capital and hedge funds, including Odey European, Lansdowne, Balderton and BlueCrest. These funds are run by ruthlessly brilliant investment managers whose reputations are built on spotting trends in the capital markets before anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/nov\/13\/circle-health-social-enterprise-hedge-fund-manager?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Circle Health \u2013 the company that last week became the first private healthcare operator to take over the running of an\u00a0NHS\u00a0district general hospital \u2013 has variously been described as a &#8220;John Lewis-style mutual&#8221;, a &#8220;third-sector provider&#8221;, and 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-25978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978","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=25978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25979,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions\/25979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}